Swap on SSD

[Trond Endrestøl]

On Tue, 6 Feb 2018 11:12-0800, Doug Hardie wrote:

> > On 6 February 2018, at 00:04, Trond Endrestøl <Trond.Endrestol at fagskolen.gjovik.no> wrote:
> > 
> > On Mon, 5 Feb 2018 13:53-0500, Robert Huff wrote:
> > 
> >> 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?)
> > 
> > Try hitting the w key while running top. Then hit the o key and type 
> > in swap. Hit the enter key and the display should now be sorted by the 
> > most swappy processes. If you read the commit log for top, you'll 
> > notice the VM subsystem doesn't really track swap usage, so the 
> > presented values are only an estimate.
> 
> What system version does that work on?  Running 11.1-RELEASE, I get "Command not understood" for both of those.

It's available in base/head and base/stable/11. It will not be present 
in releases until 11.2-RELEASE. I don't know the status for 
10.4-RELEASE. I only run 11.1-STABLE and occasionally 12.0-CURRENT on 
my systems.

-- 
Trond.