swapfile query

[Cy Schubert]

In message <201708192100.v7JL0vFk003935 at slippy.cwsent.com>, Cy Schubert 
writes:

> (On my -CURRENT laptop I see a scan rate in the hundreds on a totally idle 
> laptop and in the teens of my idle firewall. IMO this doesn't seem right, 
> at least not compared to previous releases of FreeBSD or from the days when 
> I worked on Solaris. You shouldn't see a scan rate on an idle system.)

It appears that on an idle system with many pages in use, i.e. a laptop 
running X and not really doing anything else, pages are scanned though the 
system is idle. This is likely an artifact of r308474.

-- 
Cheers,
Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert at cschubert.com>
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