Illogical usage of swap

[Colin J. Raven]

On Mar 16 at 14:54, Giorgos Keramidas asked:

> 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?

No, it isn't:
gonzo# sysctl -a |grep vm.swap_idle_enabled
vm.swap_idle_enabled: 0

Regards,
-Colin
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Colin J. Raven
Wed Mar 16 14:01:00 CET 2005