From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 13 7:23:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from crcst346.netaddress.usa.net (crcst154.netaddress.usa.net [204.68.24.154]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5E92B37B585 for ; Mon, 13 Mar 2000 07:23:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bsdi@usa.net) Received: (qmail 27558 invoked from network); 13 Mar 2000 15:23:29 -0000 Received: from nwcst277.netaddress.usa.net (204.68.23.22) by outbound.netaddress.usa.net with SMTP; 13 Mar 2000 15:23:29 -0000 Received: (qmail 16914 invoked by uid 60001); 13 Mar 2000 15:23:29 -0000 Message-ID: <20000313152329.16913.qmail@nwcst277.netaddress.usa.net> Received: from 204.68.23.22 by nwcst277 for [212.38.132.6] via web-mailer(M3.4.0.33) on Mon Mar 13 15:23:28 GMT 2000 Date: 13 Mar 00 17:23:28 EET From: Fawaz To: "Kevin T. Likes" Subject: Re: [Swap problem on 3.1-RELEASE] Cc: FreeBSD Questions X-Mailer: USANET web-mailer (M3.4.0.33) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG There could be 100+ reasons.. Well you give more details about the settings you use ?! Cheers. "Kevin T. Likes" wrote: We have a system running 3.1-RELEASE with fwtk as a gateway for e-mail an= d = other services. Within the last couple of months, this machine has begun= = crashing regularly with out of swap messages. The system begins with ver= y = 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 s= ystem run under brief unusual loads (downloading spooled mail from our secondar= y = mail server) without using any swap at all. Any ideas what might be using up this swap space or strategies in trackin= g 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 When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. Sincerely, Fawaz Talal ____________________________________________________________________ Get free email and a permanent address at http://www.netaddress.com/?N=3D= 1 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message