From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 3 12:48:26 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) id MAA00330 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 3 Aug 1995 12:48:26 -0700 Received: from diamond.sierra.net (diamond.sierra.net [204.94.39.235]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) with SMTP id MAA00320 for ; Thu, 3 Aug 1995 12:48:24 -0700 Received: from martis-d222.sierra.net by diamond.sierra.net with SMTP id AA11418 (5.67b8/IDA-1.5 for ); Thu, 3 Aug 1995 12:48:24 -0700 Message-Id: <199508031948.AA11418@diamond.sierra.net> From: "Jim Howard" To: freebsd-questions@freefall.cdrom.com Date: Thu, 3 Aug 1995 11:51:59 -0800 Subject: Re: 2.0.5 Eager to go into swap Reply-To: jiho@sierra.net X-Confirm-Reading-To: jiho@sierra.net X-Pmrqc: 1 Priority: normal X-Mailer: Pegasus Mail/Windows (v1.22) Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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