Re: usage of swap file

2009-02-06 Thread Glen Barber
On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 3:47 AM, Wojciech Puchar
 wrote:
 my system sometimes need more memory and although there was 3.90 Gbyte
 swap, I saw that run out of memory  when I see with top command.
 Why doesn't the machine use swap properly ?
>>>
>>> it does
>>>
 What do I have to do ?
>>>
>>> nothing
>>
>> Those are the most worthless responses I have ever seen.  Instead of
>
> well. from your description it's just all fine!
> i don't know why you say about "running out of memory" at all.
>
> does your programs crash with "out of memory" message?
>

My description? I'm not the original poster. Pay attention.

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Re: usage of swap file

2009-02-06 Thread Wojciech Puchar

my system sometimes need more memory and although there was 3.90 Gbyte
swap, I saw that run out of memory  when I see with top command.
Why doesn't the machine use swap properly ?


it does


What do I have to do ?


nothing


Those are the most worthless responses I have ever seen.  Instead of


well. from your description it's just all fine!
i don't know why you say about "running out of memory" at all.

does your programs crash with "out of memory" message?
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Re: usage of swap file

2009-02-05 Thread Glen Barber
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 5:46 PM, Wojciech Puchar
 wrote:
>> I use freebsd7.0
>> I have 2 Gbyte RAM and 4 Gbyte Swap.
>> my system sometimes need more memory and although there was 3.90 Gbyte
>> swap, I saw that run out of memory  when I see with top command.
>> Why doesn't the machine use swap properly ?
>
> it does
>
>> What do I have to do ?
>
> nothing

Those are the most worthless responses I have ever seen.  Instead of
one-word answers, how about enlightening us all on the basis for your
response?


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Re: usage of swap file

2009-02-05 Thread RW
On Fri, 6 Feb 2009 00:33:40 +0200
"Yavuz"  wrote:

> I use freebsd7.0
> I have 2 Gbyte RAM and 4 Gbyte Swap.
> my system sometimes need more memory and although there was 3.90
> Gbyte swap, I saw that run out of memory  when I see with top command.
> Why doesn't the machine use swap properly ?

I'm not sure what you are saying here, but if you mean that it appears
to have very little free memory, but isn't swapping, then that's normal,
see:


http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.html#TOP-FREEMEM
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Re: usage of swap file

2009-02-05 Thread Wojciech Puchar

I use freebsd7.0
I have 2 Gbyte RAM and 4 Gbyte Swap.
my system sometimes need more memory and although there was 3.90 Gbyte swap, 
I saw that run out of memory  when I see with top command.

Why doesn't the machine use swap properly ?


it does


What do I have to do ?

nothing
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usage of swap file

2009-02-05 Thread Yavuz

I use freebsd7.0
I have 2 Gbyte RAM and 4 Gbyte Swap.
my system sometimes need more memory and although there was 3.90 Gbyte swap, 
I saw that run out of memory  when I see with top command.

Why doesn't the machine use swap properly ?

What do I have to do ?



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