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From: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net>
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Subject: Re: swap usage
In-Reply-To: <199708300700.CAA11451@mailhub.iastate.edu> from Kent Vander Velden at "Aug 30, 97 02:00:21 am"
To: graphix@iastate.edu (Kent Vander Velden)
Date: Sat, 30 Aug 1997 02:32:18 -0500 (EST)
Cc: dyson@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
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Kent Vander Velden said:
> 
>   Netscape 4.0 b7
>   XEmacs 19.15
>   g++ (included with -current)
>   egcs August 21 snapshot
>   XFree
>   A few xterms
>   Gnuplot
>   ppp
> 
Maybe you are transiently using swap space?  Is there a process that
starts/stops and you simply run out of swap?  Several of the programs
above can get very large...  There is no other people having the problem
that you are seeing.  You might want to do a ps -xla or cat /proc/*/map,
and see if there are any huge programs.

-- 
John
dyson@freebsd.org
jdyson@nc.com