Xorg in swwrt

[Daniel O'Connor]

On 06/02/2011, at 19:57, Kostik Belousov wrote:
>>  PID USERNAME    THR PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE   C   TIME   WCPU COMMAND
>> 21787 fiona         1  76    0   168M   134M swwrt   0   0:04 32.37% Xorg
> swwrt means waiting for the syncronous swap-out to finish.
> This is consistent with the top indicating the non-trivial amount of
> swap space used and swapout happen right now.

OK.

There are a lot of daemons running, however it does the swwrt thing even on a fresh boot, and even when there is a lot of free space.

I wonder if it is doing something silly like trying to get some contiguous memory or similar..

> Look at the working set of the application you are starting.
> Another thing that is standing out is huge wired count.

Yep, it's running ZFS :)

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