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From: John Robert LoVerso <loverso@opengroup.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: (BUG in 2.2-BETA) Re: 2.2 GAMMA 2/5 results in SWAP FULL?
Date: 14 Feb 1997 13:58:06 GMT
Organization: Open Group Research Institute, Cambridge MA
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Here is a related bug I just noticed on a 2.2-BETA system:
freebase:~ 222 j$ vmstat
procs memory page faults cpu
r b w avm fre flt re pi po fr sr s0 in sy cs us sy id
0 0 0 19704 9544 5 0 0 0 2 1 0 239 235 9 0 0 99
freebase:~ 223 j$ ps aux
USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TT STAT STARTED TIME COMMAND
loverso 23785 0.0 0.5 476 280 pa R+ 8:40AM 0:00.01 ps -aux
.
freebase:~ 224 j$ ps aux|tot
0.000000 605503.000000 0.100000 95.800000 63476.000000 60032.000000 0.000000 0.000000 1441.000000 22.000000 0.000000 0.000000 16.000000 0.000000 0.000000
freebase:~ 225 j$ vmstat
procs memory page faults cpu
r b w avm fre flt re pi po fr sr s0 in sy cs us sy id
0 0 04187500 9440 5 0 0 0 2 1 0 239 235 9 0 0 99
(tot is an awk script that sums columns)
Notice that once "ps" was run, the avm output from vmstat went from
19704 to 4187500. That's slightly 8-} more pages than my system has.
From vmstat(1):
memory Information about the usage of virtual and real memory. Virtual
pages (reported in units of 1024 bytes) are considered active if
they belong to processes which are running or have run in the
last 20 seconds.
avm active virtual pages
fre size of the free list
The vmstat output continues to report such figures (and it has been far
more than 20 seconds since I ran "ps").
John