From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 12 06:59:46 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A31B16A4CE for ; Fri, 12 Dec 2003 06:59:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from clunix.cl.msu.edu (clunix.cl.msu.edu [35.9.2.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD30C43D1F for ; Fri, 12 Dec 2003 06:59:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu) Received: (from jerrymc@localhost) by clunix.cl.msu.edu (8.11.7p1+Sun/8.11.7) id hBCExgW27631; Fri, 12 Dec 2003 09:59:42 -0500 (EST) From: Jerry McAllister Message-Id: <200312121459.hBCExgW27631@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: mark@s-wit.net (M.D. DeWar) Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 09:59:41 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <000901c3c0be$3f9c6840$fa65a8c0@ocfl061> from "M.D. DeWar" at Dec 12, 2003 09:43:01 AM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd Subject: Re: swap space X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 14:59:46 -0000 > > I seem to be running out of swap space > swapinfo shows 80-95% filled. > Mostly from mrtg. > is there a way to see whats else is eating it up ? > I guess a ls doesn't work on it . > this machine has 256megs of ram and 512MB swap space. > anything I can do ? Because of the efficient paging algorithm it will always show almost full swap space. Someone else can better explain it than I, but there have been several discussions of it on the lists so searching should dredge up some good information. ////jerry > > Mark > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >