Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 22:01:20 -0500 (CDT) From: David Scheidt <dscheidt@enteract.com> To: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> Cc: Andrew Reilly <areilly@nsw.bigpond.net.au>, Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, Mitsuru IWASAKI <iwasaki@jp.freebsd.org>, bfischer@Techfak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE, acpi-jp@jp.freebsd.org, dcs@newsguy.com, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ACPI project progress report Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96.1000619215655.23894A-100000@shell-1.enteract.com> In-Reply-To: <20000619180003.A15754@orion.ac.hmc.edu>
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On Mon, 19 Jun 2000, Brooks Davis wrote: :On Tue, Jun 20, 2000 at 10:49:24AM +1000, Andrew Reilly wrote: : :> Processes do still wind up in "sleep" state, completely paged :> out, don't they? : :Observationaly, no. Unless I actually manage to run my system low on :RAM, none of my swap is used even with ~5MB Eterm processes sitting :unused for days. I suppose if I let memory get tight, they might get :ditched in favor of disk cache, but I haven't seen that happen. Someone :with a better grasp of the VM could give a more preciese answer. I find lots my xterms getting swapped out on my office desktop. It's only (!) got 128MB of RAM, and I routinely have two or three dozen xterms running locally, plus a like number from remote machines, plus an instance of the X server and Netscape. It only takes a couple seconds to swap in one of the xterms when I start to use it again, and I often don't notice, because I have to move my hand from the mouse back to hte keyboard. I'm probably not a typical user, of course. David scheidt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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