question on memory swap for Darwin clients

[Dominique Frise <Dominique.Frise (at) unil.ch>]

Hi,

Here the output of memory real and swap values for a Mac OSX client:


 Tue Apr 18 08:34:07 CEST 2006 - Memory OK

   Memory              Used       Total  Percentage
green Physical            420M       1024M         41%
green Swap         4294967295M 4294967295M          0%


What means this hudge value for swap?

----Extract of client data----
[meminfo]
Mach Virtual Memory Statistics: (page size of 4096 bytes)
Pages free:                   154609.
Pages active:                  45696.
Pages inactive:                34172.
Pages wired down:              27667.
"Translation faults":      702133041.
Pages copy-on-write:       110185692.
Pages zero filled:         148901972.
Pages reactivated:             26786.
Pageins:                     3864958.
Pageouts:                      27880.
Object cache: 18823165 hits of 23019598 lookups (81% hit rate)
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Dominique