2006/1/9, Chavdar Ivanov <ci4ic4@gmail.com>:
> 2006/1/9, Charles Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>:
> > On Jan 9, 2006, at 4:31 PM, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> ...
>
> > > And now I see that I have 38MB of swap used although my "buffers" is
> > > around 137MB (37MB cached executable pages and 99MB cached file
> > > pages) and
> > > I have 1MB free real memory.
>
> Those 38MB used swap seem to be there all the time - on my 512MB
> 3.99.15 i386 laptop:
>
> Memory: 237M Act, 147M Inact, 5000K Wired, 64M Exec, 141M File, 66M Free
> Swap: 1024M Total, 38M Used, 986M Free
> ...
>
> Interesting... that's always how it looks, unless I have been doing
> some real long compilations.

Tuning NetBSD VM behaviour (swap usage)  by Arto Selonen
http://www.selonen.org/arto/netbsd/vm_tune.html

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