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Date:      Wed, 12 Dec 2001 10:46:34 -0500
From:      Chris Faulhaber <jedgar@fxp.org>
To:        Blake Crosby <dev@samurai.com>
Cc:        freebsd-isp@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Who is using swap?
Message-ID:  <20011212104634.A70011@peitho.fxp.org>
In-Reply-To: <JAEEIJKIHAONENKPFCCPEEMGCBAA.dev@samurai.com>
References:  <20011212102940.A97975@peitho.fxp.org> <JAEEIJKIHAONENKPFCCPEEMGCBAA.dev@samurai.com>

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On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 10:40:05AM -0500, Blake Crosby wrote:
> I always forget about ps
> 
> the "W" flag indicates that its been swapped out. I wonder what is freebsd's
> intention of swapping something:
> 
> infiniteloop-/usr/ports/sysutils> ps auwx | grep W
> root       30  0.0  0.0   208    0  ??  IWs  -         0:00.00 adjkerntz -i
> root      473  0.0  0.0   944    0  v0  IWs+ -         0:00.00
> /usr/libexec/getty Pc ttyv0
> root      474  0.0  0.0   944    0  v1  IWs+ -         0:00.00
> /usr/libexec/getty Pc ttyv1
...
> 
> Is there a reason why getty is put in swap, and not memory?
> 

Because they haven't been used for some period of time?  Seems
reasonable to put processes that are not active to be swapped-
out...

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Chris D. Faulhaber - jedgar@fxp.org - jedgar@FreeBSD.org
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