FreeBSD-10 and processes swapping out for no reason
Dmitry Sivachenko
trtrmitya at gmail.com
Tue Jan 7 16:16:47 UTC 2014
Hello!
Recently I updated several of my servers from 9.2-STABLE 10.0:
10.0-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 10.0-PRERELEASE #0 r259661
Workload did not change at all, same programs, same load, same hardware.
I noticed that some of the processes on 10.0 boxes are marked as swapped out in top(1) output:
1436 root 1 43 0 16524K 0K nanslp 14 1:14 0.00% <cron>
1381 smmsp 1 20 0 23988K 0K pause 18 0:04 0.00% <sendma
99348 mitya 1 21 0 23492K 0K pause 16 0:00 0.00% <csh>
ps also shows them as swapped out (W as second character in state field):
1381 - IWs 0:00.00 sendmail: Queue runner at 00:30:00 for /var/spool/clie
1436 - IWs 0:00.00 /usr/sbin/cron -s
80231 - IWs 0:00.00 /usr/local/sbin/collectdmon -c /usr/local/sbin/coll
99348 1 IWs 0:00.00 -csh (csh)
These machines have enought RAM and that never happened on 9.2-STABLE.
I turned off swap:
# swapinfo
Device 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity
#
And state of these processes did not change: still second characted in state field of ps output is W, and top shows them in angles.
How should I treat that?
Thanks.
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