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From: darren@bacchus (Darren Friedlein)
Newsgroups: unix-pc.general,comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: Swapping and wmgr
Message-ID: <459@bacchus>
Date: 24 May 88 12:33:12 GMT
References: <449@bacchus> <153@elgar.UUCP>
Reply-To: darren@bacchus.UUCP (Darren Friedlein)
Organization: The Humanities Forum - Research Triangle Park; Durham, NC
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In article <153@elgar.UUCP> ford@kenobi.UUCP (Mike Ditto) writes:
>In article <449@bacchus> darren@bacchus (Darren Friedlein) writes:
>>I have a question that I'm hoping someone can answer... I run phdaemon on
>>my machine and when memory has to be swapped out to disk, phdaemon fails,
>>leaves me a message under the [!!] icon and I re-start it.
>
>What is the message?  How do you know it has anything to do with
>swapping (and do you really mean swapped, as in a "0" Flags entry in
>ps -fl, or just normal VM paging)?

When smgr (found out I had the wrong mgr) displayed the [!!] icon before,
the message I got was that phdaemon died because SOMETHING was swapped
out, either phdaemon or a program it was monitoring.  This time, smgr
quit completely right after the [!!] icon appeared.  From ps, I could
see that the system load was real heavy.  This doesn't assure that
swapping was the cause, but that would be my best guess.

What is the difference between a process being swapped out and normal
VM paging?  I thought the UNIXpc could only support 4M or virtual memory,
but when I formatted the drive, it reserved 6M of space.

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