Date: Mon, 1 Sep 1997 11:25:04 -0600 (MDT) From: Wes Peters <softweyr@xmission.com> To: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net> Cc: graphix@iastate.edu (Kent Vander Velden), questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: swap usage Message-ID: <199709011725.LAA05901@obie.softweyr.ml.org> In-Reply-To: <199708300732.CAA00657@dyson.iquest.net> References: <199708300700.CAA11451@mailhub.iastate.edu> <199708300732.CAA00657@dyson.iquest.net>
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John S. Dyson writes:
> 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.
Gents, whenever I see this problem, it is caused by Java applets in
Netscape eating all available virtual memory. Did Mr. Vander Velden
have any long-running applets up in Netscape?
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Wes Peters Softweyr LLC
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