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From: jdp@PacBell.COM (Jerry D. Pierce)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Swapping Questions
Message-ID: <6882@pbhyf.PacBell.COM>
Date: 10 Feb 90 20:27:29 GMT
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Organization: Pacific * Bell, San Ramon, CA
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I am running Interactive 2.0.2 on a Wyse 386/25 machine with 4
megs of memory.  During a recent compile of GCC, the machine had to
go out and swap processes to the swap area on the disk.  
 
A swap -l showed that we were into the disk swap area for about
150 blocks.   Three days after the compile completed, we were 
STILL in the disk swap space for 120 blocks or so.  killing
the gettys on both of the virtual terminals regained xx blocks.
Killing and restarting the lpsched daemon managed to regain all 
of the blocks except for 8.
 
Short of rebooting, how do I get those other unknown processes back
into main memory?  And should I really care about being out in swap??
 
And aren't processes supposed to go back into main memory when there
is sufficient space available?

   Jerry Pierce
   pacbell!pbhyf!jdp