50 percent swap used, but "ps auxww" output shows no processes swapped out

[Eugene Grosbein]

04.02.2018 5:09, Mark Millard via freebsd-stable wrote:

> I do not know if a W after the first letter in state (STAT) for
> "ps auxww" track the kernel-stacks' resident-vs-not status for the
> process or not. (Matching your not sure status.)

A process has specific flag P_INMEM that is normally 1 but is cleader by a kernel
when "swapout" procedure is executed for a process. Such process cannot get CPU time etc.
top shows process name like "<name>" instead of just "name" in that case.