On 02/03/2018 04:18 PM, Brandon Allbery wrote: > Swapping whole processes out is not really a thing any more. > Individual pages are paged to/from memory; if a memory page has no > backing file, it will be allocated a block in swap space as its > backing storage.
Is there a method to determine what swap contents are connected to, if looking at processes is no longer "a thing"? I have great confidence in the wonderful FreeBSD documentation, but I find nothing (quickly) in the manual pages. > (I'm not sure "W" status even means swap; I thought whole-process > swapping wasn't even supported any more.) The manpage for ps(1), (which I'm sure you're aware of!) describes the "state" field and its multiple characters and their meanings... that's what I used for reference. "W" as 1st character means "idle interrupt thread [of the kernel]." Subsequent W characters imply swapped-out processes. In subsequent characters a W indicates that a PID is swapped out. Thanks for your reply, --MCV. _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
