Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 22:56:17 -0400 (EDT) From: Francisco Reyes <lists@natserv.com> To: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions List <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: When does swap decreases Message-ID: <20050620225204.F41158@zoraida.natserv.net> In-Reply-To: <20050620185545.GF8497@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20050620141439.S36309@zoraida.natserv.net> <20050620182430.GE8497@dan.emsphone.com> <20050620144631.F37558@zoraida.natserv.net> <20050620185545.GF8497@dan.emsphone.com>
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On Mon, 20 Jun 2005, Dan Nelson wrote: > When the system is low on memory, it will force the least used > blocks of memory to swap. It will not free the swap space until > the process owning them exits Have not found any program to see what programs are using the swap, but as I think about it, the current method is not very "smart". I guess any other method is difficult to implement. How wonder how the current method affects performance. Basically if there is a surge of memory usage and processes start that use the swap and these processes are long lived.. I wonder if performance will be affected.
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