Swap on SSD

[Erich Dollansky]

Hi,

On Mon, 5 Feb 2018 13:53:07 -0500
Robert Huff <roberthuff at rcn.com> wrote:

> Frank Leonhardt writes:
> 
> >  FreeBSD doesn't actually swap these days; uses demand paging.  
> 
> 	Possible evidence to the contrary:
> 	On a system running:
> 
> FreeBSD 12.0-CURRENT #0 r326723: Sat Dec  9 12:30:04 EST 2017 amd64
> 
> 	top shows:
> 
> last pid: 57956;  load averages:  2.02,  2.01,  1.95   up
> 57+19:09:04  13:49:29 132 processes: 3 running, 129 sleeping
> CPU: 38.7% user,  0.4% nice,  7.9% system,  0.0% interrupt, 53.0% idle
> Mem: 2264M Active, 2303M Inact, 1478M Laundry, 1525M Wired, 761M Buf,
> 115M Free Swap: 17G Total, 996M Used, 16G Free, 5% Inuse
> 
> 	So ... is "Swap" an incorrect label, or is actual swapping
> going on?
> 	(And is there a utility which will list the swap area by
> owning process?)
> 
I have the same when putting to much load on my old machine. It is just
a matter of RAM.

Either you spend the money on RAM or on SSD.

Erich