Swap on SSD

Frank Leonhardt frank2 at fjl.co.uk
Wed Feb 7 15:01:18 UTC 2018


On 2018-02-05 18:53, Robert Huff wrote:
> Frank Leonhardt writes:
> 
>>  FreeBSD doesn't actually swap these days; uses demand paging.
> 
> 	Possible evidence to the contrary:
> 	On a system running:
> 
> FreeBSD 12.0-CURRENT #0 r326723: Sat Dec  9 12:30:04 EST 2017 amd64
> 
> 	top shows:
> 
> last pid: 57956;  load averages:  2.02,  2.01,  1.95   up 57+19:09:04  
> 13:49:29
> 132 processes: 3 running, 129 sleeping
> CPU: 38.7% user,  0.4% nice,  7.9% system,  0.0% interrupt, 53.0% idle
> Mem: 2264M Active, 2303M Inact, 1478M Laundry, 1525M Wired, 761M Buf, 
> 115M Free
> Swap: 17G Total, 996M Used, 16G Free, 5% Inuse
> 
> 	So ... is "Swap" an incorrect label, or is actual swapping
> going on?

Yes, it's an incorrect label.





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