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 -- DISCLAIMER: If it can be disclaimed, it is. DISCLAIMER: In particular, I don't represent any organization. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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