systat -vm shows "w" state procs, but swap is free

Jun Kuriyama kuriyama at imgsrc.co.jp
Mon Aug 16 17:27:06 PDT 2004


As of 2004.08.15.22.00.00 current kernel (with debugging config).

I'm not sure this is known issue or recent breakage.

When I'm running buildworld with nice(1), systat(1) -vm shows some "w"
state processes (approx 1 to 5).  But swapinfo(8) shows no swap is
used.

Man page for systat(1) says "w" state is:

     swapped out but desiring to run (`w').

Is there something wrong?


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