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Date:      Thu, 16 Nov 2000 19:48:32 -0500
From:      Raymond Law <flaw@vt.edu>
To:        George Reid <greid@ukug.uk.freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   RE: FreeBSD VM
Message-ID:  <4.3.0.20001116194703.02061bb0@mail.vt.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0011162305520.9302-100000@sobek.nevernet.net>
References:  <3A1C57B4@zathras.cc.vt.edu>

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Thanks, John and George.  I got a lot of info to hack around now : )

Ray,

At 11:09 PM 11/16/00 +0000, George Reid wrote:
>On Thu, 16 Nov 2000, flaw wrote:
>
> > Maybe due to the amount of memory, the program is still in memory so no 
> page
> > faults are induced.  But why cnt.v_vm_faults (cnt is the vmmeter) are
> > incremented much more frequently than p->p_stats->p_ru.ru_majflt?
>
>cnt.v_vm_faults is number of page faults for the whole system (as opposed
>to one particular process (correct me if I'm wrong, don't have the source
>handy).
>
> > Also, the swapper process with pid 0 (why pid 0?) has ru_majflt the same
> > as cnt.v_vm_faults.
>
>Think of the swapper process as a pseudoprocess - it's part of the
>kernel (which controls all the VM stuff).
>
>G
>
>"And then it comes to be that the soothing light
>    at the end of your tunnel was just a freight
>             train, comin' your way."
>
>       George Reid * greid@ukug.uk.freebsd.org
>
>
>
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