Hello Gang.

I'm confused by the below ioflush process. How and why is ioflush using 
99MB memory? There is practically nothing happening on this machine. It's 
a firewall/gateway machine for a home LAN with three, barely-used Macs behind 
it. 

-- Matt 


load averages:  0.09,  0.12,  0.08                                      13:27:31
50 processes:  49 sleeping, 1 on processor
CPU states:  0.0% user,  0.0% nice,  0.0% system,  0.5% interrupt, 99.5% idle
Memory: 82M Act, 34M Inact, 4608K Wired, 7728K Exec, 88M File, 58M Free
Swap: 252M Total, 252M Free

PID USERNAME PRI NICE   SIZE   RES STATE      TIME   WCPU    CPU COMMAND
8 root      18    0     0K   99M syncer     7:50  0.15%  0.15% [ioflush]
4879 msh        2    0  5400K 6464K select     0:23  0.00%  0.00% screen-4.0.2
312 root      18    0  1264K 3808K pause      0:21  0.00%  0.00% ntpd
396 root       2    0  3008K 2072K select     0:08  0.00%  0.00% httpd
179 root      10    0  1184K  888K nanoslee   0:07  0.00%  0.00% ipmon
337 root       2    0   432K 2512K select     0:04  0.00%  0.00% sshd
9 root     -18    0     0K   99M aiodoned   0:04  0.00%  0.00% [aiodoned]
7 root     -18    0     0K   99M pgdaemon   0:02  0.00%  0.00% [pagedaemon]