Date: Thu, 3 Aug 1995 11:51:59 -0800 From: "Jim Howard" <jiho@sierra.net> To: freebsd-questions@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: 2.0.5 Eager to go into swap Message-ID: <199508031948.AA11418@diamond.sierra.net>
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serges@umr.edu quotes dyson@freebsd.org as saying: > > The current resident size of any given process can be obtained by using > > the ps command and looking at the RSS field. The RSS field only accounts > > for the pages that are currently mapped into the process and ignores > > any aspect of sharing or pages on disk. Is that resident in terms of pages actually occupied at the moment, or "resident" in terms of resident processes and their potential for occupying pages if all allocated pages were accessed? And how does this relate to the kernel deciding it needs to swap? --Jim Howard
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