Date: Sun, 16 Jun 1996 22:30:05 +0200 (SAT) From: Khetan Gajjar <khetan@iafrica.com> To: Gary Palmer <gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Way to flush swap Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.93.960616222517.270H-100000@chain.iafrica.com> In-Reply-To: <21680.834938379@palmer.demon.co.uk>
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On Sun, 16 Jun 1996, Gary Palmer wrote: >Do you quit out of X too? You run `netscape'. `xearth', `xdaliclock' Yes. >and `xload', all of which do large numbers of bitmap operations and >likely trigger a large memory usage situation in the server. (i.e. the >memory leak bug). I do exit out of X, and do a kill -9 -1 as the user that executed those programs, i.e khetan >I'm running a -stable from earlier this month (June 2nd) and do NOT >have this sort of problem... Hmmm. I downloaded the latest sources today, and did a make world. Things were looking promising; very little swap was being used, and then when I quit out of everything swap utilisation didn't drop (as normal). Right now, it's sitting on 57% used, and there are no user-invoked processes on the machine. >(BTW: Your nice little sed expression trimmed out a lot of info which ;-) > could have been useful, like the %MEM, VSZ and RSS of the > applications...) Apologies. Do you want them ? [chain] ~$ ps -uaxwwwww | grep khetan khetan 7913 9.2 14.3 6632 4392 ?? S 10:26PM 0:22.44 /usr/local/lib/netscape/netscape.bin khetan 270 2.1 3.4 1596 1040 p3 Is+ 7:05PM 0:05.89 (pine) khetan 238 0.0 1.9 440 588 ?? S 7:04PM 0:21.03 fvwm95-2 -s khetan 242 0.0 0.0 660 0 p1 IWs+ 7:04PM 0:00.37 -bash (bash) khetan 266 0.0 0.7 340 216 ?? S 7:05PM 0:10.27 rxvt -font 7x14 -T Top -n Top khetan 267 0.4 1.0 476 304 p2 Ss+ 7:05PM 1:16.87 top khetan 274 0.0 0.0 680 24 p4 IWs+ 7:05PM 0:01.75 -bash (bash) khetan 285 0.1 1.7 704 520 p5 Ss 7:05PM 0:04.23 -bash (bash) khetan 302 0.0 3.0 984 900 p4 I 7:06PM 3:13.73 xearth khetan 310 0.0 0.8 340 240 ?? S 7:08PM 0:01.26 rxvt -T PPP session khetan 4009 0.0 0.7 252 196 ?? I 7:24PM 0:00.47 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fvwm95-2//FvwmButtons 8 5 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fvwm95-2/.fvwm2rc95 0 8 khetan 4010 0.0 1.3 244 404 ?? S 7:24PM 0:02.21 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fvwm95-2//FvwmTaskBar 10 5 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fvwm95-2/.fvwm2rc95 0 8 khetan 4011 0.0 0.2 156 68 ?? S 7:24PM 0:00.32 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fvwm95-2//FvwmAuto 12 5 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fvwm95-2/.fvwm2rc95 0 8 200 khetan 4012 0.0 0.0 464 0 ?? IW 7:25PM 0:00.03 /bin/sh -c xdaliclock -builtin -fn 12x24 -geometry -5-5 khetan 4013 0.1 0.7 292 208 ?? S 7:25PM 1:17.63 xdaliclock khetan 4014 0.0 0.0 468 0 ?? IW 7:25PM 0:00.02 /bin/sh -c nice -16 xload -fg red -nolabel -bg grey60 -update 5 -geometry -1500-1500 khetan 4015 0.0 1.0 256 284 ?? SN 7:25PM 0:03.64 xload khetan 4016 0.0 0.8 224 232 ?? S 7:25PM 0:02.42 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fvwm95-2//FvwmPager 14 5 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fvwm95-2/.fvwm2rc95 0 8 0 0 khetan 7912 0.0 0.5 464 160 ?? I 10:26PM 0:00.03 /bin/sh -c netscape khetan 7919 0.0 0.9 500 264 p5 R+ 10:29PM 0:00.02 ps -uaxwwwww khetan 7920 0.0 1.5 176 444 p5 R+ 10:29PM 0:00.03 grep khetan [chain] ~$ [chain] ~$ swapinfo Device 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Type /dev/wd1s1b 44128 24908 19156 57% Interleaved [chain] ~$ Regards, Khetan Gajjar. --- Visit me at http://www.iafrica.com/~khetan/ UUNet-Internet Africa Operations help@iafrica.com or 0800-030-002
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