Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2007 00:51:36 +0100 From: Ivan Voras <ivoras@fer.hr> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: virtual memory management Message-ID: <eou9ua$gij$1@sea.gmane.org> In-Reply-To: <45B297D0.4060109@gmx.de> References: <60131.192.168.11.7.1169279847.squirrel@lists.lc-words.com> <20070120221021.GA63135@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> <45B297D0.4060109@gmx.de>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] [LoN]Kamikaze wrote: >> Don't forget that the system also pages to swap space and it takes the >> attitude of parking as much as possible out there in case it comes in >> to demand again. Ten if it really needs the space for something, it >> invalidates the oldest stuff and uses that space. >> >> So, you should really expect that your swap space should be >> nearly maxed all the time if things are working well. > > If this is the case something is really wrong on my system: > > Swap: 4096M Total, 4096M Free > > either top doesn't show the precautionary swapping or this is not happening. "Precautionary" swapping does exist, but it's not that often :) What the poster probably meant is that it's possible to have a perfectly working system which looks like it's using a lot of swap if the swapin/swapout rate is low enough. [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.4 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFsqsIldnAQVacBcgRAt8KAJ4ssu8Dq1wjOea1BKblJbKjLeM/dwCg3ZeZ oIJ8wp7Kli2Jy7nK6yIPMm0= =+PRs -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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