From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 13 7: 9: 1 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from jaka.isd.state.in.us (jaka.isd.state.in.us [199.8.63.68]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3911C37B5DD for ; Mon, 13 Mar 2000 07:08:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from klikes@isd.state.in.us) Received: from jaka.isd.state.in.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by jaka.isd.state.in.us (8.9.3/8.9.0) with ESMTP id KAA07889; Mon, 13 Mar 2000 10:08:50 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <200003131508.KAA07889@jaka.isd.state.in.us> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: bzust@jaka.isd.state.in.us, pi@jaka.isd.state.in.us Subject: Swap problem on 3.1-RELEASE Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 10:08:50 -0500 From: "Kevin T. Likes" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG We have a system running 3.1-RELEASE with fwtk as a gateway for e-mail and other services. Within the last couple of months, this machine has begun crashing regularly with out of swap messages. The system begins with very little swap usage, which grows very slowly until there is a sudden jump. We've tried using 'ps' to track down what processes might be hanging, but no processes show as being swapped at all. In addition, I've watched they system run under brief unusual loads (downloading spooled mail from our secondary mail server) without using any swap at all. Any ideas what might be using up this swap space or strategies in tracking it down? Kevin T. Likes State of Indiana To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message