Ken Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When I use 'top' command to check my system, some processes are shown like > '<php>'. The manual told these processes are swapped out.
Actually it means that they're not mapped into RAM, but in practice that should be the same. Just out of cusiosity I grepped the kernel sources for the PS_INMEM flag and found just two places where it could possibly be cleared for a process: during creation of a child process within the fork() system call, and when a process is being swapped out. > But my problem is .. I don't have swapping device (swapoff -a). Where are > they swapped to ? If you don't plan to configure any swap at all, I recommend you build a kernel with "options NO_SWAPPING". It removes the code for swapping processes from the kernel. (By the way, I recommend you always configure some swap, even if you don't intend to use it under normal circumstances, except maybe on diskless machines.) Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH, Handelsregister: Registergericht Mün- chen, HRB 125758, Geschäftsführer: Maik Bachmann, Olaf Erb, Ralf Gebhart FreeBSD-Dienstleistungen, -Produkte und mehr: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd "If you think C++ is not overly complicated, just what is a protected abstract virtual base pure virtual private destructor, and when was the last time you needed one?" -- Tom Cargil, C++ Journal _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
