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Date:      Thu, 31 Jul 2014 03:13:34 -0400
From:      Allan Jude <allanjude@freebsd.org>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD 10 swapping Idle processes :/
Message-ID:  <53D9EC9E.3020207@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <53D9EBA0.5030600@gmail.com>
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On 2014-07-31 03:09, Adi wrote:
> Hello
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>> swapping refers to the management of paging at the process level - in
>> some cases it's more efficient to page-out all the memory from some
>> idle or less active processes.=20
>=20
> But this is probably new behavior in FreebSD 10 ?
> I don't see it before on 9.1 in similar server load.
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>> I just reproduced this by dd'ing a 16 GB file to tmpfs (with 16GB RAM,=

>> and 16GB swap). Some processes were marked as swapped before any
>> actual paging occurred. \
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> I forgot write, have small tmpfs too:
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> tmpfs               2,0M    252K    1,8M    12%
> /var/pgsql/data/pg_stat_tmp
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> Best Regards.
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If you reboot and don't use the tmpfs, do the symptoms go away?

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Allan Jude


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