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Date:      Wed, 28 Jan 2004 13:27:00 +0100
From:      Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se>
To:        Piotr Gnyp <toread@discordia.pl>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: swap usage
Message-ID:  <20040128122700.GA95722@falcon.midgard.homeip.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.58.0401281314010.45660@discordia.pl>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.58.0401281228100.45660@discordia.pl> <20040128121134.GA78272@xor.obsecurity.org> <Pine.BSF.4.58.0401281314010.45660@discordia.pl>

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On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 01:20:05PM +0100, Piotr Gnyp wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Jan 2004, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> wrote:
> 
> > Of course, what you posted doesn't indicate this.  Swap is used by
> > processes, so killing the process that is actually using the swap will
> > cause it to be reclaimed.  If you think something else is going on,
> > please provide the appropriate details so we can analyse the problem.
> 
> so, beside top and swapinfo - how can i check it?
> 
> My point is: why system uses swap if it has free memory.

To make sure that there is free memory available when programs need it.



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Erik Trulsson
ertr1013@student.uu.se



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