On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 6:01 PM, hiren panchasara < hi...@strugglingcoder.info> wrote:
> Yes, I've seen this too. Inact end up accumulating a very large chunk of > memory leaving Free to very low. > > What VM/pagedaemon seems to care about is Free+Cache and not just Free. > I kind of get that Free mem is wasted mem but putting everything in Inact > to the point that machine has to go into swap when a sudden need arises > also doesn't seem right. > If the file cache is "hot" but some working storage that was used at boot and will never be touched again is lying around (or, perhaps, that getty listening on a virtual console you never use), it makes perfect sense to push that out to swap. "Swap in use" does not mean "memory management problems". -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates allber...@gmail.com ballb...@sinenomine.net unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad http://sinenomine.net _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
