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... -- Chris D. Faulhaber - jedgar@fxp.org - jedgar@FreeBSD.org -------------------------------------------------------- FreeBSD: The Power To Serve - http://www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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