Re: When does swap decreases

2005-06-21 Thread Bill Moran
Francisco Reyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 20 Jun 2005, Dan Nelson wrote: When the system is low on memory, it will force the least used blocks of memory to swap. It will not free the swap space until the process owning them exits Have not found any program to see what programs

Re: When does swap decreases

2005-06-20 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jun 20), Francisco Reyes said: My swap used to be 30MB+ I increased from 256MB to 384MB. For several days swap usage was zero. Then I saw it increase to a few hundred Kbs.. and now it's up to 10MB. I am wondering if it's because swap is not going down or there is now

Re: When does swap decreases

2005-06-20 Thread Francisco Reyes
On Mon, 20 Jun 2005, Dan Nelson wrote: When the system is low on memory, it will force the least used blocks of memory to swap. It will not free the swap space until the process owning them exits (even if it pages that memory back into RAM), so at some point the system paged out 30MB of

Re: When does swap decreases

2005-06-20 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jun 20), Francisco Reyes said: On Mon, 20 Jun 2005, Dan Nelson wrote: When the system is low on memory, it will force the least used blocks of memory to swap. It will not free the swap space until the process owning them exits (even if it pages that memory back into

Re: When does swap decreases

2005-06-20 Thread K. Greenwood
--- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the last episode (Jun 20), Francisco Reyes said: On Mon, 20 Jun 2005, Dan Nelson wrote: snipped swap space not decreasing, and revelation that a process may still exist Makes sense. Any way to find out which process is using the swap? None

Re: When does swap decreases

2005-06-20 Thread Francisco Reyes
On Mon, 20 Jun 2005, K. Greenwood wrote: Perhaps /sysutils/lsof? Desc. as follows. Checked both lsof and fstat. Neither lists programs that are using the swap. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: When does swap decreases

2005-06-20 Thread Francisco Reyes
On Mon, 20 Jun 2005, Dan Nelson wrote: When the system is low on memory, it will force the least used blocks of memory to swap. It will not free the swap space until the process owning them exits Have not found any program to see what programs are using the swap, but as I think about it, the

Re: When does swap decreases

2005-06-20 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jun 20), Francisco Reyes said: On Mon, 20 Jun 2005, Dan Nelson wrote: When the system is low on memory, it will force the least used blocks of memory to swap. It will not free the swap space until the process owning them exits Have not found any program to see what

Re: When does swap decreases

2005-06-20 Thread Francisco Reyes
On Mon, 20 Jun 2005, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Jun 20), Francisco Reyes said: How wonder how the current method affects performance. Basically if there is a surge of memory usage and processes start that use the swap and these processes are long lived.. I wonder if performance

Re: When does swap decreases

2005-06-20 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jun 20), Francisco Reyes said: On Mon, 20 Jun 2005, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Jun 20), Francisco Reyes said: How wonder how the current method affects performance. Basically if there is a surge of memory usage and processes start that use the swap and these