usage of swap file

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On Fri, 6 Feb 2009 00:33:40 +0200
"Yavuz" <maslak at ihlas.net.tr> wrote:

> I use freebsd7.0
> I have 2 Gbyte RAM and 4 Gbyte Swap.
> my system sometimes need more memory and although there was 3.90
> Gbyte swap, I saw that run out of memory  when I see with top command.
> Why doesn't the machine use swap properly ?

I'm not sure what you are saying here, but if you mean that it appears
to have very little free memory, but isn't swapping, then that's normal,
see:


http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.html#TOP-FREEMEM