From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 4 9:43:12 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.netcologne.de (mail2.netcologne.de [194.8.194.103]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1918E37B913 for ; Tue, 4 Jul 2000 09:43:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pherman@frenchfries.net) Received: from bagabeedaboo.security.at12.de (dial-194-8-196-248.netcologne.de [194.8.196.248]) by mail2.netcologne.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA03154; Tue, 4 Jul 2000 18:43:06 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from localhost (localhost.security.at12.de [127.0.0.1]) by bagabeedaboo.security.at12.de (8.10.2/8.10.2) with ESMTP id e64GgpL00363; Tue, 4 Jul 2000 18:42:51 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2000 18:42:50 +0200 (CEST) From: Paul Herman To: Kamal Lakhiani Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: process flags In-Reply-To: <00070416285900.01293@klakhiani.isdnet.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 4 Jul 2000, Kamal Lakhiani wrote: > I see an undocumtented process flag value of 10^5. What does it mean ? #define P_BUFEXHAUST 0x100000 /* dirty buffers flush is in progress */ ...is what I found in sys/proc.h, but I think the description in the comment is misleading. (?) It means that these proceses are allowed to allocate vfs buffers no matter how full the buffer memory is. As it stands, only the pagedaemon and bufdaemon get these flags. -Paul. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message