Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 23:07:19 -0500 From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu> To: FreeBSD <freebsd@optiksecurite.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Simple swap question Message-ID: <20081219040719.GA83557@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <494A820E.2030907@optiksecurite.com> References: <494A693A.5050204@optiksecurite.com> <200812181028.18306.kirk@strauser.com> <20081218163632.GE5150@torus.slightlystrange.org> <494A820E.2030907@optiksecurite.com>
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On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 12:02:06PM -0500, FreeBSD wrote: > Daniel Bye a écrit : > >On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 10:28:18AM -0600, Kirk Strauser wrote: > >>On Thursday 18 December 2008 09:16:10 FreeBSD wrote: > >>>Hi everyone, > >>> > >>>I have a FreeBSD 7.0-Release server that started to swap after an error > >>>in a shell script (process spawning competition ;-) ). I killed the > >>>shell and the RAM is now OK. The problem is that the swap is still used. > >>>How can I "reset" the swap? > >>You don't. The system will handle it for you, I promise. :-) > > > >And very well, too. > > > >You can prompt it to move pages back into RAM if you start using a swapped- > >out process again - say, for example, a quiescent word processor had been > >swapped out, you could get it back by raising it and starting to type. > > > >But as Kirk said, there really is no need. It's one of the kernel's many > >jobs, and I'm inclined to leave it get on with it! > > > >Dan > > > > Thanks for your answer. I'm asking here because it's been several days > and there is still used swap for data that should never be used anymore. > If the kernel wants to keep it, why not move it to RAM now that there is > some free? Why bother if it isn't being currently used? ////jerry > > Martin > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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