Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2018 05:01:55 +0700 From: Eugene Grosbein <eugen@grosbein.net> To: Brandon Allbery <allbery.b@gmail.com>, Michael Voorhis <mvoorhis@mcvau.net> Cc: freebsd-stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: 50 percent swap used, but "ps auxww" output shows no processes swapped out Message-ID: <5A763153.8000406@grosbein.net> In-Reply-To: <CAKFCL4USAr8ia6bTqK4dXOAGBJmx51MKZDOPyrcD0Gm1WdWQrg@mail.gmail.com> References: <b4f2f623-4d58-a783-4c6b-5138c6dfcf52@mcvau.net> <CAKFCL4USAr8ia6bTqK4dXOAGBJmx51MKZDOPyrcD0Gm1WdWQrg@mail.gmail.com>
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04.02.2018 4:18, Brandon Allbery wrote: > (I'm not sure "W" status even means swap; I thought whole-process swapping > wasn't even supported any more.) Kernel may decide to swap out entire processes if vm.swap_enabled=1 (default) and its free page pool heavily stressed or system was configured by administrator to swap out idle processes proactively using vm.swap_idle_enabled=1 (not default).
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