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

Rebecca Cran rebecca at bluestop.org
Mon Nov 19 04:44:11 UTC 2018


On Sunday, 18 November 2018 15:05:04 MST Cy Schubert wrote:

> Unfortunately like many operating systems these days, FreeBSD's tuning
> parameters are generally baked in. And, fencing (an IBM term to limit
> address space memory use or to establish a minimum) isn't available.
> So, tuning for a site specific workload is more difficult.

Talking of tuning, this seems like a good resource for tuning for desktop use: 
https://cooltrainer.org/a-freebsd-desktop-howto/ .

-- 
Rebecca




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