On Sun, 27 Mar 2016 17:12:38 -0400 Dan LaBell <dan4l-nos...@verizon.net> wrote: > > The other thing I see is that swap never gets used. The system > > appears > > to crash when real memory gets used up and swap used is always 0. > What happens if you force swap to be used, like mounting a mfs file > system > larger than free memory, and filling it?
I was afraid to try on the production server but I did play with a spare. In fact, the spare was the previous email server. I thought that it might be hardware problems so I swapped out the machine. I ran a program that used up more memory than physical memory. It went to swap just fine. So swap works but available real memory in dropping with no indication of what is using it. My test program now shows this: PS: 2209720 PROC: 18198136 As far as I can tell I am seeing a total of 2GB of memory used by all processes and resident in memory but the system (top and /proc/meminfo) are telling me that 17GB of memory is in use. What's using the other 15GB? -- D'Arcy J.M. Cain <da...@netbsd.org> http://www.NetBSD.org/ IM:da...@vex.net
