From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Oct 12 09:41:12 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id JAA20989 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 12 Oct 1995 09:41:12 -0700 Received: from clem.systemsix.com (clem.systemsix.com [198.99.86.131]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id JAA20982 for ; Thu, 12 Oct 1995 09:40:49 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by clem.systemsix.com (8.6.8/8.6.6) with SMTP id KAA11261; Thu, 12 Oct 1995 10:40:21 -0600 Message-Id: <199510121640.KAA11261@clem.systemsix.com> X-Authentication-Warning: clem.systemsix.com: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol From: Steve Passe To: hackers@freebsd.org Cc: Charlie ROOT , Charles Henrich Subject: Re: IMPORTANT: 0928-SNAP, Enlessly increasing swap In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 06 Oct 1995 02:31:32 MDT." Date: Thu, 12 Oct 1995 10:40:21 -0600 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Hi, >> The problems with swap that appears to continually grow and never shrink appear >> to be back in 950928-SNAP :( :(. Right now im using 54% of Swap (41 under an >> hour ago), with X running (same X as I've been running for months and months). > >I'm having what appears to be a similar problem with 2.0.5. I see used >swap space go up as users do their thing (netscape and X are particular >culprits), but I've NEVER seen it go down. We invariably end up rebooting >every 3 days or so when we can't log in anymore. I'm running 950922-SNAP, XF86-3.1.2. I ran a test and thought I saw the same problem for awhile, but it eventually started going down again: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #!/bin/ksh # length=3600 # 1 hour echo "starting $0" `date` while : do echo; echo " time: " `date` swapinfo sleep ${length} done ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- results: starting watchswap.ksh Sun Oct 8 12:23:34 MDT 1995 time: Sun Oct 8 12:23:34 MDT 1995 Device 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Type /dev/sd0s1b 98304 7000 91240 7% Interleaved .... time: Sun Oct 8 14:23:36 MDT 1995 Device 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Type /dev/sd0s1b 98304 10916 87324 11% Interleaved .... time: Mon Oct 9 02:23:34 MDT 1995 Device 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Type /dev/sd0s1b 98304 17828 80412 18% Interleaved .... time: Tue Oct 10 18:23:32 MDT 1995 Device 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Type /dev/sd0s1b 98304 20904 77336 21% Interleaved .... time: Wed Oct 11 02:23:32 MDT 1995 Device 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Type /dev/sd0s1b 98304 22220 76020 23% Interleaved .... time: Wed Oct 11 14:23:31 MDT 1995 Device 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Type /dev/sd0s1b 98304 33056 65184 34% Interleaved time: Wed Oct 11 15:23:32 MDT 1995 Device 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Type /dev/sd0s1b 98304 29192 69048 30% Interleaved .... time: Wed Oct 11 17:23:32 MDT 1995 Device 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Type /dev/sd0s1b 98304 28176 70064 29% Interleaved .... time: Thu Oct 12 10:23:31 MDT 1995 Device 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Type /dev/sd0s1b 98304 25332 72908 26% Interleaved -- Steve Passe | powered by smp@csn.net | FreeBSD