RW <rwmaillists <at> googlemail.com> writes: > ... > > ... > > "2) Inactive memory (which is memory that has been recently used but > > is no longer) is supposed to be seamlessly reclaimed automatically by > > the OS when needed for new programs. In practice, I’ve found that > > this isn’t the case, and my system slows to a crawl and starts paging > > out to disk when free memory drops to zero, even as half of the > > available RAM (which is a lot) is marked as inactive. ..." > > That's not a good description of inactive memory, most of which > contains useful data. The situation described is undesirable, but not > abnormal. It can happen when your physical memory is spread thinly, but > most of it isn't being frequently accessed. In that case the inactive > queue can be dominated by dirty swap-backed pages. > ...
Would implementing the VM pageout algorithm in such a way that it would mix in equal proportion the current least-actively used algo and the old least-recently used algo help the situation ? jb _______________________________________________ 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"