From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Dec 12 7:46:37 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from peitho.fxp.org (peitho.fxp.org [209.26.95.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28EAB37B417 for ; Wed, 12 Dec 2001 07:46:35 -0800 (PST) Received: by peitho.fxp.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 6B4EF13651; Wed, 12 Dec 2001 10:46:34 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 10:46:34 -0500 From: Chris Faulhaber To: Blake Crosby Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Who is using swap? Message-ID: <20011212104634.A70011@peitho.fxp.org> References: <20011212102940.A97975@peitho.fxp.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.20i Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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