In article <20050116200935.GA7370@enterprise.starfleet>,
Lasse Kliemann  <lasse-list-current-users-netbsd-2004@plastictree.net> wrote:
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>First of all,
>thank you all for your answers!
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>* Christos Zoulas writes:
>> In article <20050115171001.GA1137@enterprise.starfleet>,
>> Lasse Kliemann  <lasse-list-current-users-netbsd-2004@plastictree.net> wrote:
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>> >> sounds like your processes are being swapped to disk very often
>> >
>> >dmesg talks about 224 MB available memory, but I am having trouble matching 
>> >this with the output of top:
>> >
>> >Memory: 101M Act, 56M Inact, 1260K Wired, 39M Exec, 57M File, 12M Free
>> >Swap: 512M Total, 9532K Used, 503M Free
>> >
>> >I do not believe that Firefox is doing a lot of swapping, because the
>LED for 
>> >the harddisk is quiet most of the time, and obviously there is very few 
>> >swapspace used.
>> 
>> Does top show pagedaemon running?
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>ps ax shows such a process:
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>   13 ?      DK   0:01.97 [pagedaemon]
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>> Does vmstat 1 show paging?
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>I guess so. The output is like this:

No, it you don't seem to be paging, so it is not memory starvation...

christos