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Date:      Wed, 17 Feb 2016 12:56:04 -0600
From:      =?UTF-8?B?RWZyYcOtbiBEw6ljdG9y?= <efraindector@motumweb.com>
To:        dweimer@dweimer.net
Cc:        stable@freebsd.org, owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: intr using Swap
Message-ID:  <56C4C244.8070805@motumweb.com>
In-Reply-To: <87f6fb602e0ad11b7600c70a08d74c30@dweimer.net>
References:  <56C4AF81.3040202@motumweb.com> <87f6fb602e0ad11b7600c70a08d74c30@dweimer.net>

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El 17/02/2016 a las 12:34 p. m., dweimer escribió:
> I believe you are incorrectly reading it, the first character of the 
> state line being a W Marks an idle interrupt thread, W only means 
> swapped out if its an additional character in the section.
>
> man ps
>  [...snip...]
>  state     The state is given by a sequence of characters, for example,
>                ``RWNA''.  The first character indicates the run state 
> of the
>                process:
>  [...snip...]
>                W       Marks an idle interrupt thread.
>  [...snip...]
>                Additional characters after these, if any, indicate 
> additional
>                state information:
>  [...snip...]
>                W       The process is swapped out.
>  [...snip...]
>
> Even when there is available memory if an item has already been 
> swapped it wont return to physical memory until the process needs 
> access that memory. Its not uncommon to see systems that had a brief 
> memory constraint leave some swap long after the memory has been 
> cleared up.
>

Hello.

Thank you for your response.

Using only /ps ax/ doesn't show any process being in swap. How can I 
determine what processes are being swapped out?



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