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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Path: sserve!cserve.cs.adfa.oz.au!wkt
From: wkt@cserve.cs.adfa.oz.au (Warren Toomey)
Subject: Why are no processes swapped in FreeBSD-1.0?
Message-ID: <1994Feb9.003953.7932@sserve.cc.adfa.oz.au>
Sender: news@sserve.cc.adfa.oz.au
Organization: Australian Defence Force Academy
Date: Wed, 9 Feb 1994 00:39:53 GMT

Looking at the output of ps -aux under FreeBSD-1.0, it seems that NO processes
are ever swapped out to disk (i.e there are no IW processes marked). However,
under 386bsd-0.1+patchkits, this does happen. I've ensured that the system has
had enough time and inclination to swap out some processes (e.g processes
idle for >30 seconds, lots of memory active in other processes).

Can somebody tell me if this is a problem in FreeBSD-1.0, or if ps itself
is not properly reporting process status.


P.S Why doesn't iostat show disk activity :-) ???

Many thanks!

	Warren
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