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

Rebecca Cran rebecca at bluestop.org
Sat Nov 17 22:22:53 UTC 2018


On Saturday, 17 November 2018 14:52:22 MST Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> freebsd will not swap with that lots of free ram.
> but it's 90GB free NOW, how about before?
> 
> If something got swapped it isn't read back just because there is free
> memory but when it will be needed.

That was it: just before, I'd run grep and canceled it after it reached about 
120GB memory usage!

-- 
Rebecca




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