From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 24 08:14:01 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA08449 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 24 Aug 1998 08:14:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from elvis.vnet.net (elvis.vnet.net [166.82.1.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA08424 for ; Mon, 24 Aug 1998 08:13:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rivers@dignus.com) Received: from dignus.com (ponds.vnet.net [166.82.177.48]) by elvis.vnet.net (8.8.8/8.8.4) with ESMTP id LAA28260; Mon, 24 Aug 1998 11:13:01 -0400 (EDT) Received: from lakes.dignus.com (lakes [10.0.0.3]) by dignus.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA20630; Mon, 24 Aug 1998 11:49:57 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from rivers@localhost) by lakes.dignus.com (8.8.8/8.6.9) id LAA09685; Mon, 24 Aug 1998 11:16:45 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1998 11:16:45 -0400 (EDT) From: Thomas David Rivers Message-Id: <199808241516.LAA09685@lakes.dignus.com> To: lists@alpha.nl, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Swapping off swapspace In-Reply-To: <024601bdcf6f$5b30db90$98626dc2@lisboa.nedstat.nl> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > Hi, I'm sorry for asking a really stupid question, but it's kind of urgent > and I can't find the answer (and I'm more familiar with linux as I am with > FreeBSD). At this moment I have a FreeBSD 2.2.6 system running which is > consuming 185M of swapspace... but it doesn't do anything... How can I > swapoff this swapspace so it'll clear this ? > > > Arjan > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > There's no way to "swapoff" at the moment... but, something is consuming the space. You might want to look at the running processes and determine which one it is; and kill that. You can use /bin/ps or, if it's installed, top, to determine what the swap space culprit is... - Dave Rivers - To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message