From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jun 19 20: 3:49 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mail.enteract.com (mail.enteract.com [207.229.143.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E05C537B56B; Mon, 19 Jun 2000 20:03:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dscheidt@enteract.com) Received: from shell-1.enteract.com (dscheidt@shell-1.enteract.com [207.229.143.40]) by mail.enteract.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id WAA91828; Mon, 19 Jun 2000 22:01:20 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dscheidt@enteract.com) Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 22:01:20 -0500 (CDT) From: David Scheidt To: Brooks Davis Cc: Andrew Reilly , Warner Losh , Poul-Henning Kamp , Mitsuru IWASAKI , 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 In-Reply-To: <20000619180003.A15754@orion.ac.hmc.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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-current" in the body of the message