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Date:      Sat, 22 Oct 2005 22:24:29 +1000
From:      Peter Jeremy <PeterJeremy@optushome.com.au>
To:        Mikhail Teterin <mi+kde@aldan.algebra.com>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Why page-in a SIGKILL-ed process?
Message-ID:  <20051022122429.GC39000@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <200510211100.48429@aldan>
References:  <200510211100.48429@aldan>

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On Fri, 2005-Oct-21 11:00:48 -0400, Mikhail Teterin wrote:
>17850 mi          1 -16    0  4158M  1118M wdrain 1   0:06  6.10% vim
>
>The question is: Why bother with paged-out parts of the process, when it
>is already doomed by SIGKILL?

wdrain appears to be associated with file I/O rather than paging
(though I may be wrong here).  Is it possible that vim had started
core-dumping before you SIGKILL'd it?  I've seen problems on other
OS's where core-dumping processes couldn't be killed and caused
significant performance degradation if they were very large.

-- 
Peter Jeremy



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