On Friday 19 December 2008 19:04:26 FreeBSD wrote: > This server is very lightly used, so most of the time if the swap is > getting used it shows that something is going wrong. This warning > already proved usefull once, so I don't think I'm going to change it.
Swapping is a symptom of a symptom - or just the machine doing it's job. Better let nagios monitor: - fork rate by observing kern.lastpid sysctl over time - nr. of processes running - top 10 processes sorted by resident memory (res not size in top(1)) Those are the actual symptoms of something going wrong that can cause a system to start swapping heavily. 3MB swap is not 'heavily' and is nothing to worry about.In fact, a high fork rate can DOS a system pretty well, without the machine ever going into swap. -- Mel Problem with today's modular software: they start with the modules and never get to the software part. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"