Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!jade!saturn!ssyx.ucsc.edu!koreth From: koreth@ssyx.ucsc.edu (Steven Grimm) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Pagedaemon Keywords: swapping Message-ID: <1381@saturn.ucsc.edu> Date: 10 Dec 87 23:44:51 GMT Sender: usenet@saturn.ucsc.edu Reply-To: koreth@ssyx.ucsc.edu (Steven Grimm) Organization: The American Redundancy Society of America Lines: 16 This is probably a very simple question, but our resident UNIX guru couldn't come up with an answer. It has to do with the "pagedaemon" process. I was doing a ps -aux one day and noticed that although our pagedaemon's total process size is 512K, none of it is resident in main memory. Am I mistaken in assuming that the page daemon is what handles page swapping? If so, how on Earth does it ever get swapped in from disk to swap things in from disk? That seems like an awfully strange setup to me. Any answers would be greatly appreciated. +New! Improved! Now 100% Artificial-+-+-----------------------------------+ |# # @@@ **** &&&&& $$$$$ % %| |Steven Grimm | |# # @ @ * * & $ % %+-+ ARPA: koreth@ucscb.ucsc.edu | |### @ @ **** &&&& $ %%%%%| | UUCP: ...!ucbvax!ucscc!ssyx!koreth| |# # @ @ * * & $ % %+-+ ______________________________| |# # @@@ * ** &&&&& $ % %| | |"Let's see what's out there."| +-----with NutraSour(TM)! No natural colors or preservatives!------------+