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

[anna2edw%yahoo.com@localhost]

I have an idea. Remove the swap partition. LMAO

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--- Original Message ---
Date: Sun May 04 08:28:00 PDT 2008
From: Johnny Billquist <bqt%softjar.se@localhost>
To: anna2edw%yahoo.com@localhost
Cc: netbsd-users%netbsd.org@localhost, js%webkeks.org@localhost
Subject: Re: Using swap though there's plenty of mem free
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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.

        Johnny

anna2edw%yahoo.com@localhost skrev:
> 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
> 
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> --- 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
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> 
> 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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