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Date:      Tue, 3 Oct 2017 16:21:50 -0400
From:      "Michael W. Lucas" <mwlucas@michaelwlucas.com>
To:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   vmstat's w column
Message-ID:  <20171003202150.GA42540@mail.michaelwlucas.com>

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Hi,

(This query brought to you courtesy of tech reviews on my new freeBSD
book.)

On my -current box, vmstat(8) says:

     procs   Information about the numbers of processes in various states.

             r       in run queue
             b       blocked for resources (i/o, paging, etc.)
             w       runnable or short sleeper (< 20 secs) but swapped

I've had a couple people report to me that they have w entries even
when only a few kilobytes are swapped out.

Is the man page wrong? Or should I tell them to report that output as
a bug?

Thanks,
==ml



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