Subject: Re: Swap used for no reason?
To: Charles Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
From: Chavdar Ivanov <ci4ic4@gmail.com>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 01/09/2006 22:49:15
2006/1/9, Charles Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>:
> On Jan 9, 2006, at 4:31 PM, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
...

> > And now I see that I have 38MB of swap used although my "buffers" is
> > around 137MB (37MB cached executable pages and 99MB cached file
> > pages) and
> > I have 1MB free real memory.

Those 38MB used swap seem to be there all the time - on my 512MB
3.99.15 i386 laptop:

Memory: 237M Act, 147M Inact, 5000K Wired, 64M Exec, 141M File, 66M Free
Swap: 1024M Total, 38M Used, 986M Free
...

Interesting... that's always how it looks, unless I have been doing
some real long compilations.


> >
> > (A few minutes ago, I had 8MB free real memory and still 137MB
> > buffers and
> > 38MB used but my cached executable pages was around 30MB.
>
...
> --
> -Chuck
>
>