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From: jbayer@ispi.UUCP (Jonathan Bayer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: swapper cpu time on 286 Xenix
Message-ID: <611@ispi.UUCP>
Date: 20 May 89 00:02:20 GMT
References: <662@marob.MASA.COM>
Reply-To: jbayer@ispi.UUCP (Jonathan Bayer)
Organization: Intelligent Software Products, Inc.
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In article <662@marob.MASA.COM> daveh@marob.masa.com (Dave Hammond) writes:
>We have a few 286 machines running SCO 2.2.1, all of which exhibit
>amazingly high TIME values for 'swapper' on a ps table.  On average,
>the time seems to increment by 5,000 minutes per day, or so (ie the
	[ deleted ]

>Are these machines actually "swapping", or does the swapper just use
>a hunk of cpu time?  If they are swapping, I can't believe its from
>lack of core -- so what [if any] tuning can be done to improve performance?

As it was explained to me by a rep at SCO, the swapper will eat up any
excess time that is available.  I don't understand the 5000 minutes a
day, since there is only 1440 minutes in 24 hours.  Possibly there is
something wrong in the clock, but you don't have to worry about the time
for the swapper.

JB
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