On Mon, 2003-07-28 at 17:27, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> The processes with the W status are swapped out. In some Linux versions
> and maybe some other platforms, swapped out processes have the
> /proc/<pid>/cmdline file truncated, so ps uses the /proc/<pid>/exe
> symlink instead, which does know what executable file the process is
> running ("postmaster"), but not the nice status line that Postgres sets.
>
> Well, whether you understand or not what I just said, truth is the
> mechanism for showing process status in ps is not bulletproof, and this
> is one example where it fails :-(
Yes, I am beginning to suspect 'ps', as it is currently showing about
half of all processes to be swapped out, even though top shows them to
be very active.
Very weird....
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Andre Truter
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