Should process in STOP state be swapped out?

Xin LI delphij at delphij.net
Thu Oct 27 18:15:16 UTC 2011


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On 10/27/11 00:54, Edward Tomasz Napierała wrote:
> Wiadomość napisana przez Xin LI w dniu 27 paź 2011, o godz. 02:03:
>> I've noticed that if I kill -STOP a process, the in-core size
>> does not change even when there is memory pressure (what I'm
>> expecting is that if there is memory pressure, the process's
>> in-core part gets swapped out from time to time).  Is this
>> behavior intentional?
> 
> Which version is this?  I've fixed a very similar problem in
> r220387.

Thanks, I think that's the problem I hit.

The version is a heavily patched 8.2-RELEASE.  I'll run some tests to
make sure that the problem was fixed.

Cheers,
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