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From: thad@cup.portal.com (Thad P Floryan)
Newsgroups: unix-pc.general,comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: Wierd behavior on 3B1
Message-ID: <38105@cup.portal.com>
Date: 16 Jan 91 17:07:26 GMT
References: <17@morwyn.UUCP> <13449@vpk1.UUCP>
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
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craig@attcan.UUCP (Craig Campbell) in <13449@vpk1.UUCP> writes:

	In article <17@morwyn.UUCP> forrie@morwyn.UUCP (/dev/w1) writes:
	>
	>Here is a copy of my process table... this has happened just a few
	>times, nonetheless is something of concern: (LONG)
	>
	>
	>   PID TTY  TIME COMMAND
	>     0   ? 1183:58 swapper
	[...]
	The amount of time allocated to the swapper process seems alarmingly
	large to me.  Possible conclusion...your system is swapping like mad.
	But why?  You don't seem to be doing much.
	[...]

The time attributed to the "swapper" tracks the system's uptime VERY closely
on all my systems.  For example, on one system, swapper time is 91316:32 and
the system has been up 63+ days.  Given there are 1440 minutes in a day,
91316/1440 = 63.4.  That same system has only 0:04 "TIME" for pagedaemon.
You figure.

Thad Floryan [ thad@cup.portal.com ]