swapper cpu time on 286 Xenix

[Tim S. Boshart]

In article <662 at marob.MASA.COM> daveh at marob.masa.com (Dave Hammond) writes:
}We have a few 286 machines running SCO 2.2.1, all of which exhibit
}amazingly high TIME values for 'swapper' on a ps table.  On average,
}the time seems to increment by 5,000 minutes per day, or so (ie the
}TIME value, for a machine running 1 week without reboot, is ~35000:00).
}These machines have 4+ MB of RAM, run from 1 to 4 users, and run
}average load programs (vi, cc, make, cu, compress ...).
}
}Are these machines actually "swapping", or does the swapper just use
}a hunk of cpu time?  If they are swapping, I can't believe its from
}lack of core -- so what [if any] tuning can be done to improve performance?
}
}--
}Dave Hammond
}daveh at marob.masa.com

If I remember right, the swapper gets all of the idle time.  So whenever
nothing else is running, the swapper process gets the time added to it.
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