Re: Swap file usage seems very low

Monty Hall <monty@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
I'm running FreeBSD 6.0 and for the few times I've looked, the swap file
usage is never greater then 100kB. As Win32 user, this seems extremely
small, is ~100kb normal?

Zero is normal if you have plenty of RAM. After all, running code
that's been swapped out is so much slower than running from RAM. I've
never understood why Windows would swap even with unused RAM available.

Is there some setting that isn't correct?

No, FreeBSD is just using your hardware as efficiently as possible.

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Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota * USA
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