Yeah, right.Programs that don't do anything, and there is free memory around... So we just create some work to do (swap/page them out), and imagine that that was a gain?
Talk about doing speculative work.In other words: of course it slows down my computer. Do you think paging out is costless? And when there is memory enough to go around anyway... And if I want to run a program that's in swap, it definitely costs... And a program that is around is likely to run sooner or later. It's not as if programs stay active forever once started, just for the fun of it.
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Programs that are asleep is the cause just thank your computer. At least it dosn't slow your computer when sleeping programs are in swap _____________________________ Sent from my phone using flurry - Get free mobile email and news at: http://www.flurry.com --- Original Message --- Date: Sun May 04 04:41:52 PDT 2008 From: Jonathan Schleifer <js%webkeks.org@localhost> To: netbsd-users%netbsd.org@localhost Subject: Re: Using swap though there's plenty of mem free --- 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!
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