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
More information about the freebsd-hackers
mailing list