On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, NetBSD mailing list wrote:

> 
> VS 4000/60
> 
> Memory: 13M Act, 9792K Inact, 140K Wired, 632K Free, 5852K Swap, 187M Swap free
> 
> 3 compilation job runnings plus a lot of other tcsh user processes.
> Isn't strange that 10MB of RAM are inactive while the swap is used ??

Nope. If you have previously used more ram, some processes are paged
out. They are not paged in again just because there are free memory.
They are only paged in when those pages are needed.

> I am suffering of kernel crash during heavy compilations so for this I am
> sking

I think there is a bug somewhere in the system. I have problems with the
machine hanging if it's heavily used for a while. Processes seem to be
waiting for I/O which never completes. I think it's connected to paged-out
processes as well...

	Johnny

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