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Date:      Sun, 4 Feb 2018 05:38:06 +0700
From:      Eugene Grosbein <eugen@grosbein.net>
To:        Mark Millard <marklmi26-fbsd@yahoo.com>, FreeBSD-STABLE Mailing List <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: 50 percent swap used, but "ps auxww" output shows no processes swapped out
Message-ID:  <5A7639CE.1070103@grosbein.net>
In-Reply-To: <4AF9AE33-887E-43F3-8885-B8EF37185407@yahoo.com>
References:  <4AF9AE33-887E-43F3-8885-B8EF37185407@yahoo.com>

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04.02.2018 5:09, Mark Millard via freebsd-stable wrote:

> I do not know if a W after the first letter in state (STAT) for
> "ps auxww" track the kernel-stacks' resident-vs-not status for the
> process or not. (Matching your not sure status.)

A process has specific flag P_INMEM that is normally 1 but is cleader by a kernel
when "swapout" procedure is executed for a process. Such process cannot get CPU time etc.
top shows process name like "<name>" instead of just "name" in that case.




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