Re: ps output

2002-09-25 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Felix Natter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.09.25.1510 +0200]: > A "page" in this context is a small part of memory. (Think of "page > fault" which means that an application accesses parts of memory that > belong to other apps) Wrong. A page fault occurs if a requested page has to be fetch

Re: ps output

2002-09-25 Thread Rodney Green
Thanks Felix. That cleared it up for me. : > Hello everyone. In the output of the ps command I see that some of the : > processes have state codes of SW. : > The ps man page states that the 'W' means that the process "has no : > resident pages." What does : > this mean? : : A "page" in this con

Re: ps output

2002-09-25 Thread Felix Natter
> Hello everyone. In the output of the ps command I see that some of the > processes have state codes of SW. > The ps man page states that the 'W' means that the process "has no > resident pages." What does > this mean? A "page" in this context is a small part of memory. (Think of "page fault"