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From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: 'ps -el' meaning of flag codes 100 & 200?
Summary: I can answer one
Keywords: proc.h swapping
Message-ID: <1523@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
Date: 30 Oct 89 16:01:29 GMT
References: <241@melpar.UUCP>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
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Organization: GE Corp R&D Center
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In article <241@melpar.UUCP>, toppin@melpar.UUCP (Doug Toppin) writes:
|      * Is it possible to swap out the data space and leave the text resident?

  Sure. This can be seen some what more often on a system which has
multiple copies of the same program running. An inactive process will be
a candidate for swap, but the active copies will keep the (shared) text
segment in.
-- 
bill davidsen	(davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen)
"The world is filled with fools. They blindly follow their so-called
'reason' in the face of the church and common sense. Any fool can see
that the world is flat!" - anon