freecolor output question

[langitbiru]

Hi, this is output of freecolor on my FreeBSD 8.1 box

$ freecolor -mo
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:           119         78         40          0          0          2
Swap:          256         33        223

There is still free RAM, but why the swap usage is quite high?

 

[graudeejs]

Hi, this is output of freecolor on my FreeBSD 8.1 box

$ freecolor -mo
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:           119         78         40          0          0          2
Swap:          256         33        223

There is still free RAM, but why the swap usage is quite high?

Ye it's free, but only very small amount.
It's... like Just in case we need to malloc

 

[langitbiru]

Ye it's free, but only very small amount.
It.. like Just in case we need to alloc

Sorry, i don't understand at all.
Can you point me some document/URL/whatever to read .

Thanks

 

[graudeejs]

Sorry I mean malloc (memory allocation)

It's better ha have some free memory in case you need to allocate some memory, instead of swapping as soon as you need to allocate 1MB

Once you allocate necessary memory, you can start swapping in background, removing something that is not used that much.