On Thu, 18 May 2006 07:33:07 -0400 Tim Middleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Running 6.0-release, with 2 gig ram. Typical memory stats like this (from > top): > > 626M Active, > 1045M Inact, > 204M Wired, > 75M Cache, > 112M Buf, > 22M Free > > Under moderately high load i'm seeing a lot of swapping periodically through > the day (and then load avg going way, way up, of course). I'm wondering why > is there, with so much inactive memory, so much disk swapping? > > The machine runs some fairly intense stuff, such as squid, postgresql, and > zope; but it seems to me there should be enough RAM to cover all of this > without swapping. What am I missing? Am i misinterpretting the stats, and > just not understanding how the vm works? > > -- > Tim Middleton | Vex.Net | There is a wisdom that is woe; but there > [EMAIL PROTECTED] | VexTech.ca | is a woe that is madness. --Melville (MD) > maybe you have to set vm.swap_idle_enabled=0 or vm.swap_enabled=0 ? -- Best regards. Alexander "polachok" Polakov _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
