Date: Sun, 27 Oct 1996 11:11:47 -0800 (PST) From: Josef Grosch <jgrosch@superior.truenorth.org> To: darrylb@blinx.lizard.org (Darryl Bowler) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: tin and swap space Message-ID: <199610271911.LAA00431@superior.truenorth.org> In-Reply-To: <199610271443.OAA00608@blinx.lizard.org> from Darryl Bowler at "Oct 27, 96 02:43:16 pm"
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>Whenever I run tin it seems die. When viewing /var/log/messages I get this error > >Oct 27 13:35:52 blinx /kernel: pid 166 (rtin), uid 1002, was killed: out of swap > space >Oct 27 13:35:52 blinx /kernel: pid 166 (rtin), uid 1002, was killed: out of swap > space > >Somehow swap space hasnt been released, maybe due to the fact that someone has not exited tin correctly. > > I temporary solved the problem by using the swapon command, however it seemed >to want a file /dev/sd0s1b, which did not exist until I made it with MAKEDEV. >(swapon -a) > >Tin now works this way, but is this a valid solution to this problem, >how I view the swap space been used and by what process (vmstat??? maybe?)? > >How do I release swap space? > > >Regards Darryl. > Tin is a memory pig. If I remember right, for each newsgroup tin builds an in memory index of the articles that are available. Since the number of newsgroups is now hovering around 13,000 it doesn't take tin very long to eat all the swap space. This assumes you are subscribing to a very large number of newsgroups, have a small swap space, and/or have a "small" amount of memory. I bumped into this problem several months ago. I have 16 meg of ram and 100 meg of swap space (I plan on upgrading to 32 meg of ram very soon) and still I was running out of swap. I trimmed the number of newsgroups I was subscribing to. At the time I was subscribing to ALL the newsgroups so paring it down to a couple of hundred solved the problem. Use the swapinfo command [man pstat(8)] to see how much swap you have and how much is being used. The death of a process should release the swap space being used by that process. Josef -- Josef Grosch | Laugh while you can, monkey boy ! | FreeBSD 2.1.5 jgrosch@sirius.com | - John Warfin - | UNIX for the masses
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