From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 1 10:22:04 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id KAA10436 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 1 Sep 1997 10:22:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from obie.softweyr.ml.org ([199.104.124.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA10430 for ; Mon, 1 Sep 1997 10:21:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from wes@localhost) by obie.softweyr.ml.org (8.7.5/8.6.12) id LAA05901; Mon, 1 Sep 1997 11:25:04 -0600 (MDT) Date: Mon, 1 Sep 1997 11:25:04 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199709011725.LAA05901@obie.softweyr.ml.org> From: Wes Peters To: "John S. Dyson" CC: graphix@iastate.edu (Kent Vander Velden), questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: swap usage In-Reply-To: <199708300732.CAA00657@dyson.iquest.net> References: <199708300700.CAA11451@mailhub.iastate.edu> <199708300732.CAA00657@dyson.iquest.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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? -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.xmission.com/~softweyr softweyr@xmission.com