Simple swap question

[RW]

On Thu, 18 Dec 2008 15:13:12 -0500
FreeBSD <freebsd at 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