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.
(I'm not sure "W" status even means swap; I thought whole-process swapping wasn't even supported any more.) On Sat, Feb 3, 2018 at 4:14 PM, Michael Voorhis <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I've got an amd64 system running 11.1-STABLE r325027, with something > like 20G of swap. "swapinfo" shows that half the swap is used. > > So of course I'm curious to know which processes have been swapped > out. I'm not using any "tmpfs" filesystems; no ZFS, no huge amounts of > wired-down memory. The system's got 16 processors and 128G of RAM. "ps > auxww" output shows *no* processes that are swapped out (2nd character > in "STAT" field is "W"). Not a single one. The only process with a W in > the stat field at all is the "[intr]" kernel thread. > > What is using the swapspace? > > Please educate me. > > Thanks, > > --MCV. > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]" > -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates [email protected] [email protected] unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad http://sinenomine.net _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
