> This is rather subjective, but on a `good' kernel, the swap usage in > top's output stays something like this (it has 4Gbytes of physical memory) > Swap: 8192M Total, 32M Used, 8192M Free > where as on a `bad' kernel, > Swap: 8192M Total, 514M Used, 7678M Free, 6% Inuse > > This looks odd to me, as I've never needed this much swap space even > when I was using 6 jails for pbulk. I'm not using jails now. > > The last known `good' kernel was built from source as of 1e7aaef, > but bisecting cannot be automatic because the later kernels are > a bit unstable (e.g., sometimes a process locks in objde1 or objde2 > and pbulk stalls waiting for it). >
I would just like to add that Ive been experiencing this same thing for a long time, not only recently. I dont know if its an issue or not. After a while, swap usage gets up to around 30%. Don't think it affects the performance though. Petr
