Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2017 08:36:46 -0500 From: Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com> To: Robert Fitzpatrick <robert@webtent.org> Cc: FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Swap usage Message-ID: <CA%2BtpaK1=6Bn5mKfyX07gVZu%2Bg7fG3A4Xrj51G8WwFgdibic%2BkQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <58DBAB34.1000200@webtent.org> References: <58DBAB34.1000200@webtent.org>
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On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 7:40 AM, Robert Fitzpatrick via freebsd-questions < freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> wrote: > I've read a lot of posts on this subject and realize swap usage will > happen even if you have plenty of physical memory. This is not a true statement. > But are my usage results normal? .... > > last pid: 56095; load averages: 0.41, 0.35, 0.23 up 9+18:56:41 >> 08:34:39 >> 102 processes: 1 running, 101 sleeping >> CPU: 1.6% user, 0.0% nice, 1.0% system, 0.2% interrupt, 97.2% idle >> Mem: 692M Active, 29G Inact, 3033M Wired, 644M Cache, 1655M Buf, 149M Free >> Swap: 4096M Total, 2890M Used, 1205M Free, 70% Inuse >> > > There is 34G physical memory in the server but swap usage keeps creeping > up, could this possibly be a leak? After startup, it kept putting memory in > Inactive until it plateaued at 29G as swap usage then started rising. > Possibly. More probable than a legit bigfoot sighting, less probable than your system is preforming how it's configured. What is using the RAM? -- Adam
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