Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 14:17:49 +0100 From: "Colin J. Raven" <colin@kenmore.kozy-kabin.nl> To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Illogical usage of swap Message-ID: <20050316141635.A2949@kenmore.kozy-kabin.nl> In-Reply-To: <20050316130754.GC7986@orion.daedalusnetworks.priv> References: <20050316123901.U2949@kenmore.kozy-kabin.nl> <444qfbpydd.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <20050316125446.GA7986@orion.daedalusnetworks.priv> <20050316130754.GC7986@orion.daedalusnetworks.priv>
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On Mar 16 at 15:07, Giorgos Keramidas said: > On 2005-03-16 14:02, "Colin J. Raven" <colin@kenmore.kozy-kabin.nl> wrote: >> On Mar 16 at 14:54, Giorgos Keramidas asked: >>>> Free memory (or the lack thereof) isn't the issue though. >>>> >>>> The issue is this: >>>> Swap: 8192M Total, 116K Used, 8192M Free >>>> and that's the piece of the puzzle that has us all utterly baffled. >>>> >>>> No way in creation this box should be swapping. >>> >>> Do you, by any chance, have vm.swap_idle_enabled set to 1? >> >> No, it isn't: >> gonzo# sysctl -a |grep vm.swap_idle_enabled >> vm.swap_idle_enabled: 0 > > Strange. AFAIK, processes are not swapped out to disk unless there is a > severe memory shortage. The usual case is to have them "paged" out, > which is a bit different. That was my understanding also, and that's what's baffling us Regards, -Colin -- Colin J. Raven Wed Mar 16 14:17:00 CET 2005
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