Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2007 23:29:36 +0100 From: "[LoN]Kamikaze" <LoN_Kamikaze@gmx.de> To: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu> Cc: Zbigniew Szalbot <zbyszek@szalbot.homedns.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: virtual memory management Message-ID: <45B297D0.4060109@gmx.de> In-Reply-To: <20070120221021.GA63135@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> References: <60131.192.168.11.7.1169279847.squirrel@lists.lc-words.com> <20070120221021.GA63135@gizmo.acns.msu.edu>
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> Don't forget that the system also pages to swap space and it takes the > attitude of parking as much as possible out there in case it comes in > to demand again. Ten if it really needs the space for something, it > invalidates the oldest stuff and uses that space. > > So, you should really expect that your swap space should be > nearly maxed all the time if things are working well. If this is the case something is really wrong on my system: Swap: 4096M Total, 4096M Free either top doesn't show the precautionary swapping or this is not happening.
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