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From: terry@spcvxb.spc.edu (Terry Kennedy, Operations Mgr.)
Subject: Re: mystery page faults
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Date: Fri, 19 Jan 1996 03:55:53 GMT
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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.
Terry Kennedy Operations Manager, Academic Computing
terry@spcvxa.spc.edu St. Peter's College, Jersey City, NJ USA
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