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Date:      Thu, 18 Dec 2008 22:09:48 +0000
From:      RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Simple swap question
Message-ID:  <20081218220948.3b39db08@gumby.homeunix.com>
In-Reply-To: <494AAED8.2020809@optiksecurite.com>
References:  <494A693A.5050204@optiksecurite.com> <200812181028.18306.kirk@strauser.com> <20081218163632.GE5150@torus.slightlystrange.org> <494A820E.2030907@optiksecurite.com> <20081218171135.GF5150@torus.slightlystrange.org> <494AAED8.2020809@optiksecurite.com>

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On Thu, 18 Dec 2008 15:13:12 -0500
FreeBSD <freebsd@optiksecurite.com> wrote:


> I can't see any process within parentheses in top... I also looked at 
> the -f option of ps but the process that caused the swapping are not
> listed.
>

FreeBSD only swaps in extreme cases - most of the time it's paging
instead.

If it really worries you:

swapoff -a ; swapon -a



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