Illogical usage of swap

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On 2005-03-16 13:36, "Colin J. Raven" <colin at kenmore.kozy-kabin.nl> wrote:
>On Mar 16 at 07:29, Lowell Gilbert launched this into the bitstream:
>>"Colin J. Raven" <colin at kenmore.kozy-kabin.nl> writes:
>>>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.

Do you, by any chance, have vm.swap_idle_enabled set to 1?