In my absence my desktop managed to run out of memory and had to kill a number of processes:

   pid 47493 (firefox), uid 105, was killed: out of swap space
   pid 1665 (thunderbird), uid 105, was killed: out of swap space
   pid 975 (kdeinit4), uid 105, was killed: out of swap space
   pid 1344 (mysqld), uid 105, was killed: out of swap space
   pid 898 (Xorg), uid 0, was killed: out of swap space
   pid 1430 (pidgin), uid 105, was killed: out of swap space

While that's unfortunate in its own right, the current state of the machine is just weird... After the massacre the swap-usage is down to 5% and memory is plentiful. top(1) reports:

   last pid: 85719;  load averages:  0.17,  0.15, 0.11     up
   25+21:17:34  16:50:27
   123 processes: 1 running, 102 sleeping, 11 stopped, 8 zombie, 1 waiting
   CPU:  0.1% user,  0.0% nice,  1.8% system,  0.3% interrupt, 97.7% idle
   Mem: 17M Active, 7276K Inact, 9876M Wired, 10M Cache, 1032M Buf, 28M
   Free
   ARC: 1114M Total, 264M MFU, 282M MRU, 69K Anon, 44M Header, 524M Other
   Swap: 12G Total, 616M Used, 11G Free, 5% Inuse

And yet, various commands hang for a while in either pfault or zombie state upon completion. For example, top, when I tried to exit it, hung for about a minute with Ctrl-T reporting:

   load: 0.13  cmd: top 85718 [pfault] 19.04r 0.00u 0.01s 0% 2532k

Why would a machine with so much free memory continue to act this way? Is it yet to recover from the "out of swap" situation? I'm sure, a reboot will fix everything, but I expected FreeBSD to be better than that... Running 10.3-stable from April 18 here. Thanks!

   -mi

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