On Sat, Aug 19, 2017 at 02:24:19PM -0700, Cy Schubert wrote: > In message <201708192100.v7jl0vfk003...@slippy.cwsent.com>, Cy Schubert > writes: > > > (On my -CURRENT laptop I see a scan rate in the hundreds on a totally idle > > laptop and in the teens of my idle firewall. IMO this doesn't seem right, > > at least not compared to previous releases of FreeBSD or from the days when > > I worked on Solaris. You shouldn't see a scan rate on an idle system.) > > It appears that on an idle system with many pages in use, i.e. a laptop > running X and not really doing anything else, pages are scanned though the > system is idle. This is likely an artifact of r308474.
It's an intentional consequence of r254304. The page daemon performs a slow and steady scan of the queue of active pages and will gradually move unreferenced pages to the inactive queue. _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
