Re: Using swap though there's plenty of mem free

[Juan RP <xtraeme%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Sun, 4 May 2008 13:41:02 +0200
Jonathan Schleifer <js%webkeks.org@localhost> wrote:

> Even after tweakig vm.filemax now:
> 
> Memory: 171M Act, 90M Inact, 2120K Wired, 22M Exec, 23M File, 63M Free
> Swap: 257M Total, 63M Used, 194M Free
> 
> 63 MB RAM unused. Not even for file cache. And still 63 MB swapped out?
> Why the hell that? I can understand that file cache is kept and instead
> pages swapped out, but in this case? There's really no reason for that
> kind of behaviour!

I've observed this behaviour too, and the only way to not use the swap
in my case was to decrease 'vm.inactivepct'.

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