From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Aug 30 18:42:13 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id SAA13776 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 30 Aug 1995 18:42:13 -0700 Received: from efn.efn.org (efn.org [198.68.17.1]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with SMTP id SAA13765 for ; Wed, 30 Aug 1995 18:42:01 -0700 Received: from nike.efn.org (garcia.efn.org) by efn.efn.org (4.1/smail2.5/05-07-92) id AA01262; Wed, 30 Aug 95 18:40:48 PDT Date: Wed, 30 Aug 1995 18:42:32 -0700 (PDT) From: John-Mark Gurney To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: problems with programs being swaped out!! Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk right now I am having a regular problem with programs getting swapped out but never getting back in... right now Netscape just died on me wand it has the ps flags of: IW Right now netscape just stop responding... I have a 486/33DX (running at 40mhz), w/ 8megs ram and swap: Device 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Type /dev/wd0s4b 9576 9152 360 96% Interleaved /dev/wd2s4b 38760 9152 29544 24% Interleaved Total 48208 18304 29904 38% is what is current... top says that I only have 56k real memory free... what can I do to force it to swap back in? this happens to me regularly... if I am browsing the web it might happen 5+ times a night... any help besides more ram? (might be adding 1 or 2 megs soon...) TTYL... John-Mark gurney_j@efn.org Modem/FAX: (503) 683-6954 (FreeBSD Box) Live in Peace, destroy Micro$oft, support free software, run FreeBSD (unix)