Ahmed Al-Hindawi wrote: > This is not the problem. We know what is the purpose of swap data. It is > swaping when there is more than suffiecient memory to do so. There is > disk activity on the swap disk (I have a seperate disk for faster > access) even when there is enough memory to suit my request and more. > > It is simply swapping when it shouldn't. > > Opening Mozilla, Opera, Netscape, DrJava, jEdit, Emacs, PrBoom, > XBubbles, and Nautilus at the same time on a 233Mhz machine should fill > up the memory (160Mb) but instead it has decided to use the swap disk > for a measly 50Mb which I do have in RAM!! You *ARE* measuring this with FreeBSD's top(1), right? Linux has different semantics for memory, so things it thinks are "free" are actually in use on FreeBSD, and most monitor programs are written with Linux semantics in mind. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) Gerencia de Operacoes Divisao de Comunicacao de Dados Coordenacao de Seguranca VIVO Centro Oeste Norte Fones: 55-61-313-7654/Cel: 55-61-9618-0904 E-mail: Daniel.Capo_at_tco.net.br Daniel.Sobral_at_tcoip.com.br dcs_at_tcoip.com.br Outros: dcs_at_newsguy.com dcs_at_freebsd.org capo_at_notorious.bsdconspiracy.net Just when you get really good at something, you don't need to do it anymore.Received on Fri Jul 25 2003 - 08:10:47 UTC
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