Date: Tue, 2 Jun 1998 17:22:50 -0400 (EDT) From: CyberPeasant <djv@bedford.net> To: ringlord@bbs.dcoisp.net Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: swap space filling up overnight. Message-ID: <199806022122.RAA12016@lucy.bedford.net> In-Reply-To: <TCPSMTP.18.6.2.13.17.58.3047923923.35929@bbs.dcoisp.net> from "ringlord@bbs.dcoisp.net" at "Jun 2, 98 01:17:58 pm"
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ringlord@bbs.dcoisp.net wrote:
> Greetings.
> Granted, that was not the most descriptive topic I could have given, but
> I hope it gets the point across.
> I am running an apache 1.2.6 on a freebsd rel 2.2.6 box.
> In one night, the swap space reported by df, as reported as /dev/wd0a
> holding 31775 has filled up almost entirely.
This sounds more like your root partition, not swap. AFAIK df
doesn't report swap usage. (pstat -s does, though) Swap is traditionally
on the 'b' partition. Check your /etc/fstab for details of what
is mounted where.
> When just last night the percentage of swap taken was only at 50
> percent.
> I have stopped the webserver, I have rebooted the machine. Still for
> some reason the swap space is still reported as completely full.
> I haven't realy made any modifications to the machine, so I am a bit
> puzzled at this point.
Right. Look through the root partition (the files under / but not on
another partion) for what's wrong. (Swap will always be freed up on reboot).
I have a feeling that apache may be caching there, or filling a log
file, assuming that /var is part of / on your system.
Try this:
cd /
du -k -x
This will give you a subdir-by-subdir breakout of diskusage.
> Is there any script or command that I can perform that will give me a
> readout of what the swap is being used for?
pstat -s, but then again swap isn't the problem, I think.
Dave
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