From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 30 14:42:00 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA10213 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 30 Mar 1998 14:42:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA10198 for ; Mon, 30 Mar 1998 14:41:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id OAA24933; Mon, 30 Mar 1998 14:41:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 30 Mar 1998 14:41:49 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: brian@worldcontrol.com cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: swap: 43MB used? In-Reply-To: <19980328042424.A4459@top.worldcontrol.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 28 Mar 1998 brian@worldcontrol.com wrote: > Swap: 64M Total, 41M Used, 23M Free, 64% Inuse > > I run -current on my laptop and use the save to disk feature > of the laptop rather extensively. It seems my swap gets consumed > and not released. > > Primarily I run > > 5 rxvt sessions > 5 zsh sessions (modern type with shared libs and loadable modules) > 1 netscape 4.04 with 3 navigator windows > 1 applixware spreadsheet app. > 1 afterstep 1.4.4 with 9 windows (1024x768 each) Yipe. 64MB of swap may not be enough for all that. > Generally I start with 11M of swap used and as time goes along it is > all used. Closing netscape and the applixware app gets me back to > only 41M used. How about exiting X? There are known memory leaks in X and Netscape. > Who is holding on to the 41M? The system may be holding on to it and will commit out when it needs the swap. Check 'top' and see who's hogging all the memory. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message