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From: plm@compi.hobby.nl (Peter Mutsaers)
Subject: 2.1.0 uses lots of swap space
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Date: Fri, 5 Jan 1996 06:31:17 GMT
Hello,
I'm wondering why FreeBSD 2.1.0 uses so much swap space. I'm plagued
by messages indicating I have no more virtual memory.
At the moment pstat -s reports that 15M swap space is in use. I have
16MB RAM, of which I estimate at least 14MB to be available. Top
reports that only 256KB RAM is free, so the total
amount of virtual memory used is 29MB.
Now when I add all VSZ's from ps -aux:
ps -aux | awk '{s+=$5} END {print s}'
It shows that only 20.8M is used.
Where is the remaining 8MB gone to? Is it in use as filesystem cache,
or are there memory leaks somewhere?
By the way: Top says that I only have 400<B as filesystem cache at the
moment. Also, 2.3MB is "wired", whatever that may be.
Could anyone shed some light on this?
Thanks,
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