Thanks Felix. That cleared it up for me.
: > Hello everyone. In the output of the ps command I see that some of the : > processes have state codes of SW. : > The ps man page states that the 'W' means that the process "has no : > resident pages." What does : > this mean? : : A "page" in this context is a small part of memory. (Think of "page fault" : which means : that an application accesses parts of memory that belong to other apps) : : This means that the code and data of the application is swapped to disk. : When the program is not currently used, its code and data are "swapped" : (written on disk in the swap-parition), so that the memory can be used by : another : application. : For example, I think I heard that the sun java vm + apps require ~100MB, but : most of it is : swapped, so it only about 10MB (depending on apps) are used. : -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
