13-CURRENT: several GB swap being used despite plenty of free RAM

Rebecca Cran rebecca at bluestop.org
Sat Nov 17 22:21:36 UTC 2018


On Saturday, 17 November 2018 14:44:41 MST Rebecca Cran via freebsd-hackers 
wrote:

> Quitting firefox caused the swap usage to drop to just 460MB. I don't
> understand why it would decide to swap out so much, especially since I have
> vm.swap_idle_enabled set to 0.

Of course it was because just before looking at top, I'd been running 
something that used up all the memory. I'd run "grep -rHn" and it had wanted 
to use over 120GB memory, which caused all the swapouts.

-- 
Rebecca




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