Illogical usage of swap

[Colin J. Raven]

On Mar 16 at 09:24, Lowell Gilbert then said:

> "Colin J. Raven" <colin at kenmore.kozy-kabin.nl> writes:
>
>> On Mar 16 at 07:29, Lowell Gilbert launched this into the bitstream:
>
>>> 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.
>
> The same logic applies to some extent, though.
>
>> No way in creation this box should be swapping.
>
> I have noticed that FreeBSD 5.x is swapping out small amounts of
> memory in situations (as near I can tell; it is quite hard to be sure
> that the situation is really identical) where 4.x was not.  I haven't
> really tried to track down exactly what's going on, but it's always
> been less than the text segment of any task in the system, so I was
> pretty sure I wasn't seeing a problem.

Except (if I'm following you sequentially, and if I'm not, then 
apologies!) this is FreeBSD 4.11.

Regards,
-Colin
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Colin J. Raven
Wed Mar 16 15:29:00 CET 2005