Re: Illogical usage of swap

2005-03-16 Thread Bob Johnson
Colin J. Raven wrote: Hmm, yeah I should have included what I've actually read in the handbook and elsewhere. In fact I did read that exerpt you quoted the URL for above sometime previously, when it was quoted in another thread on the list. Free memory (or the lack thereof) isn't the issue tho

Re: Illogical usage of swap

2005-03-16 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > On Mar 16 at 09:47, Jerry McAllister commented: > > >> > >> "Colin J. Raven" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> > >>> On Mar 16 at 07:29, Lowell Gilbert launched this into the bitstream: > >> > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/misc.html#TOP-FREEMEM > >>> > >>> Hmm, yeah

Re: Illogical usage of swap

2005-03-16 Thread Colin J. Raven
On Mar 16 at 09:47, Jerry McAllister commented: "Colin J. Raven" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: On Mar 16 at 07:29, Lowell Gilbert launched this into the bitstream: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/misc.html#TOP-FREEMEM Hmm, yeah I should have included what I've actually read in t

Re: Illogical usage of swap

2005-03-16 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > "Colin J. Raven" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Mar 16 at 07:29, Lowell Gilbert launched this into the bitstream: > > > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/misc.html#TOP-FREEMEM > > > > Hmm, yeah I should have included what I've actually read in the > > handbook and

Re: Illogical usage of swap

2005-03-16 Thread Colin J. Raven
On Mar 16 at 09:24, Lowell Gilbert then said: "Colin J. Raven" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: On Mar 16 at 07:29, Lowell Gilbert launched this into the bitstream: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/misc.html#TOP-FREEMEM Hmm, yeah I should have included what I've actually read in the

Re: Illogical usage of swap

2005-03-16 Thread Lowell Gilbert
"Colin J. Raven" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mar 16 at 07:29, Lowell Gilbert launched this into the bitstream: > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/misc.html#TOP-FREEMEM > > Hmm, yeah I should have included what I've actually read in the > handbook and elsewhere. In fact

Re: Illogical usage of swap

2005-03-16 Thread Colin J. Raven
On Mar 16 at 15:34, Giorgos Keramidas suggested: Free memory (or the lack thereof) isn't the issue though. The issue is this: Swap: 8192M Total, 116K Used, 8192M Free and that's the piece of the puzzle that has us all utterly baffled. No way in creation this box should be swapping. Do you, by any c

Re: Illogical usage of swap

2005-03-16 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-03-16 14:17, "Colin J. Raven" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Mar 16 at 15:07, Giorgos Keramidas said: >>On 2005-03-16 14:02, "Colin J. Raven" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>On Mar 16 at 14:54, Giorgos Keramidas asked: >Free memory (or the lack thereof) isn't the issue though. > >

Re: Illogical usage of swap

2005-03-16 Thread Colin J. Raven
On Mar 16 at 15:07, Giorgos Keramidas said: On 2005-03-16 14:02, "Colin J. Raven" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mar 16 at 14:54, Giorgos Keramidas asked: Free memory (or the lack thereof) isn't the issue though. The issue is this: Swap: 8192M Total, 116K Used, 8192M Free and that's the piece of the

Re: Illogical usage of swap

2005-03-16 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-03-16 14:02, "Colin J. Raven" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Mar 16 at 14:54, Giorgos Keramidas asked: >>>Free memory (or the lack thereof) isn't the issue though. >>> >>>The issue is this: >>>Swap: 8192M Total, 116K Used, 8192M Free >>>and that's the piece of the puzzle that has us all utt

Re: Illogical usage of swap

2005-03-16 Thread Colin J. Raven
On Mar 16 at 14:54, Giorgos Keramidas asked: On 2005-03-16 13:36, "Colin J. Raven" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mar 16 at 07:29, Lowell Gilbert launched this into the bitstream: "Colin J. Raven" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Mem: 479M Active, 2470M Inact, 337M Wired, 101M Cache, 199M Buf, 5468K Free

Re: Illogical usage of swap

2005-03-16 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-03-16 13:36, "Colin J. Raven" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Mar 16 at 07:29, Lowell Gilbert launched this into the bitstream: >>"Colin J. Raven" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>>Mem: 479M Active, 2470M Inact, 337M Wired, 101M Cache, 199M Buf, 5468K Free >>>Swap: 8192M Total, 116K Used, 8192M

Re: Illogical usage of swap

2005-03-16 Thread Colin J. Raven
On Mar 16 at 07:29, Lowell Gilbert launched this into the bitstream: "Colin J. Raven" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hard to believe, but this beast is swapping. Here's a typical top snapshot: load averages: 0.75, 0.36, 0.23 up 14+12:39:04 12:40:02 128 processes: 1 running, 125 sleeping, 2 zombie

Re: Illogical usage of swap

2005-03-16 Thread Lowell Gilbert
"Colin J. Raven" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hard to believe, but this beast is swapping. Here's a typical top > snapshot: > > load averages: 0.75, 0.36, 0.23 up 14+12:39:04 12:40:02 > 128 processes: 1 running, 125 sleeping, 2 zombie > CPU states: > 7.5% user, 0.0% nice, 1.3% system, 0.0