Return to BSD News archive
Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!uunet!in1.uu.net!news.eng.convex.com!newshost.convex.com!usenet From: "Alan E. Ross" <alan@popi.net> Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: mystery page faults Date: Fri, 19 Jan 1996 09:15:41 -0800 Organization: CONVEX Computer Corporation, Richardson, TX USA Lines: 20 Message-ID: <30FFD1BD.2627@popi.net> References: <4dmmpt$g0k@sleipnir.iaccess.com.au> <1996Jan18.225553.1@spcvxb.spc.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: mobil.convex.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0b5 (Win16; I) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.admin:37242 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:2075 Terry Kennedy, Operations Mgr. wrote: > In article <4dmmpt$g0k@sleipnir.iaccess.com.au>, username@iaccess.com.au (Real Name) writes: > > I have these mysterious page faults showing up. > > > > bash# vmstat -w 5 > > procs memory page disks faults cpu > > r b w avm fre flt re pi po fr sr wd0 wd1 in sy cs us sy id > > 0 0 0 0 12964 112 13 0 0 0 0 3 0 158 124 15 4 3 93 > > > > When ever I check swap space there is never any used. > > > > Sometimes the page faults are very high. > > I think process activation (paging the executable into memory) generates > page faults. That's true Terry, but only for the faults/in category. I think the question here was why the faults *out* of memory, but no swap space used up. Alan Ross