Subject: swap usage algorithm
To: None <current-users@sun-lamp.cs.berkeley.edu>
From: Roland McGrath <roland@frob.com>
List: current-users
Date: 12/07/1993 15:48:00
How does netbsd decide which swap partitions to use in which order?
swapinfo gives me this:
Device 512-blocks Used Available Capacity
/dev/wd0b 40320 7528 32792 19%
/dev/sd0b 122880 56968 65912 46%
/dev/wd0e 32760 8 32752 0%
Total 195960 64504 131456 33%
I wonder why much of sd0b is used when wd0b still has space. (Perhaps
it is just my usage patterns? But I don't recall starting and then
killing anything which would use those 32MB.)
I would like all the space on wd0 to be used first, since that disk is
faster than sd0.
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