On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 10:41 PM, Edward Ned Harvey (lopser) < lop...@nedharvey.com> wrote:
> memory? It is normal for some processes to sit almost completely idle for > the life of the computer. Or some process dies in a zombie state, or > whatever. Swap is useful, so the kernel Zombie processes have no memory associated with them, just a process table entry some of which has been repurposed to hold the exit status and resource usage data because there is no memory or open files etc. to track any more. Otherwise, correct; swap should be getting idle pages (the getty processes on the VCs you're not using, initialization code for system daemons, etc.). If you are actively swapping pages in and out of memory a lot, you are thrashing; you need more memory (or fewer active processes). -- brandon s allbery allber...@gmail.com wandering unix systems administrator (available) (412) 475-9364 vm/sms
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