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Date:      Fri, 04 May 2001 12:54:42 +1000
From:      Gregory Bond <gnb@itga.com.au>
To:        Doug Hardie <bc979@lafn.org>
Cc:        Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG>, Marius <marius@mail.communityconnect.com>, Ramon A Hermon <rahermon@iastate.edu>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Mem Use 
Message-ID:  <200105040254.MAA15355@lightning.itga.com.au>
In-Reply-To: Your message of Thu, 03 May 2001 19:24:38 -0700.

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> Exactly.  And it also slows down other disk I/O.  Why doesn't it swap 
> it back in and leave it?  It keeps bringing it back in every couple 
> seconds.  I don't see any swap out activity, only lots of swapin.

Reading files (e.g. with cat or more) and running new programs also counts as
pagein.  That's one reason why pagein rates are so much higher than pageout.



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