Illogical usage of swap

[Colin J. Raven]

On Mar 16 at 07:29, Lowell Gilbert launched this into the bitstream:

> "Colin J. Raven" <colin at kenmore.kozy-kabin.nl> writes:
>
>> Hard to believe, but this beast is swapping. Here's a typical top
>> snapshot:
>>
>> load averages:  0.75,  0.36,  0.23 up 14+12:39:04  12:40:02
>> 128 processes: 1 running, 125 sleeping, 2 zombie
>> CPU states:
>> 7.5% user,  0.0% nice,  1.3% system,  0.0% interrupt, 91.2% idle
>> Mem:
>> 479M Active, 2470M Inact, 337M Wired, 101M Cache, 199M Buf, 5468K Free
>> Swap: 8192M Total, 116K Used, 8192M Free
>
> Not a problem.
>
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/misc.html#TOP-FREEMEM

Hmm, yeah I should have included what I've actually read in the handbook 
and elsewhere. In fact I did read that exerpt you quoted the URL 
for  above sometime previously, when it was quoted in another thread 
on the list.

Free memory (or the lack thereof) isn't the issue though.

The issue is this:
Swap: 8192M Total, 116K Used, 8192M Free
and that's the piece of the puzzle that has us all utterly baffled.

No way in creation this box should be swapping.

Thanks for your response Lowell.

Regards,
-Colin
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Colin J. Raven
Wed Mar 16 13:36:00 CET 2005