FreeBSD 10 swapping Idle processes :/
Adi
adirmj at gmail.com
Thu Jul 31 07:09:19 UTC 2014
Hello
> swapping refers to the management of paging at the process level - in
> some cases it's more efficient to page-out all the memory from some
> idle or less active processes.
But this is probably new behavior in FreebSD 10 ?
I don't see it before on 9.1 in similar server load.
> I just reproduced this by dd'ing a 16 GB file to tmpfs (with 16GB RAM,
> and 16GB swap). Some processes were marked as swapped before any
> actual paging occurred. \
I forgot write, have small tmpfs too:
tmpfs 2,0M 252K 1,8M 12%
/var/pgsql/data/pg_stat_tmp
Best Regards.
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