On 17 February 2010 22:54, Daniel J. Luke <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Feb 17, 2010, at 5:41 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > > Sounds pretty normal to me. 67108864 bytes is 64MB; a dozen of them is > 768MB. > > Except that they won't all be 64MB, the first two will be, the next will be > 128MB the next 256MB, then 512MB then the rest will be 1.0GB (at least, I > haven't seen more than 1.0GB files created) > Hm. When I run "ls -la /var/vm" I get: total 5636096 drwxr-xr-x 14 root wheel 476 17 Feb 20:12 . drwxr-xr-x 25 root wheel 850 22 Dec 2007 .. -rw------T 1 root wheel 2147483648 17 Feb 22:54 sleepimage -rw------T 1 root wheel 67108864 17 Feb 04:31 swapfile0 -rw------T 1 root wheel 67108864 17 Feb 14:40 swapfile1 -rw------T 1 root wheel 67108864 17 Feb 19:19 swapfile10 -rw------T 1 root wheel 67108864 17 Feb 14:40 swapfile2 -rw------T 1 root wheel 67108864 17 Feb 15:25 swapfile3 -rw------T 1 root wheel 67108864 17 Feb 15:25 swapfile4 -rw------T 1 root wheel 67108864 17 Feb 15:25 swapfile5 -rw------T 1 root wheel 67108864 17 Feb 15:27 swapfile6 -rw------T 1 root wheel 67108864 17 Feb 15:28 swapfile7 -rw------T 1 root wheel 67108864 17 Feb 15:28 swapfile8 -rw------T 1 root wheel 67108864 17 Feb 19:19 swapfile9 Should I be worried that these swapfiles don't match the pattern you've described? > > As long as the amount of swap space is not larger than the amount of > physical RAM installed in your computer, you should be fine. Once your swap > exceeds physical RAM, things start getting slow. > > While that might be an ok guideline, it's really just when your working set > exceeds the amount of physical RAM available that matters. > That terminology is unfamiliar to me. By "working set" do you mean the largest of the memory requirements of the programs currently being run? Oh, wait, got it... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working_set Thanks, Sam
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