Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 19:05:55 -0700 From: Nathan Kinkade <nkinkade@dsl-only.net> To: David Banning <david@skytracker.ca> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: X dies - out of swap space Message-ID: <20030412020554.GE280@sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net> In-Reply-To: <20030411212311.A28829@skytrackercanada.com> References: <20030410141136.A559@skytrackercanada.com> <20030411002220.GA280@sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net> <20030411131556.A20362@skytrackercanada.com> <200304120035.18158.dgw@liwest.at> <20030411212311.A28829@skytrackercanada.com>
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--T6xhMxlHU34Bk0ad Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 09:23:11PM -0400, David Banning wrote: > On Sat, Apr 12, 2003 at 12:35:18AM +0200, Daniela wrote: > > On Friday 11 April 2003 19:15, David Banning wrote: > > > CPU states: 0.4% user, 0.0% nice, 0.4% system, 0.4% interrupt, 98= .8% > > > idle Mem: 56M Active, 101M Inact, 32M Wired, 11M Cache, 35M Buf, 48M = Free > > > Swap: 100M Total, 3580K Used, 96M Free, 3% Inuse > >=20 > > You have little swap space compared to your physical memory. This is ge= nerally=20 > > not recommended, swap should be at least two times larger than memory. >=20 > Where is this adjusted? It would have been adjusted/set when you setup the disk at install time using the disklabel editor. Later, it is probably initialized from an entry in your /etc/fstab file. However, you appear to have somewhere near 256MB physical RAM and 100MB of swap space - for a total of around 350MB virtual memory. This is likely enough for most thing you may be doing. Your best bet at this point may be in attempting to identify which process(s) is hogging all your virutual memory. Maybe you could open an xterm window and launch `top` and leave it running and frequently look over to see which processes are using the most memory. You might also want to sort top by memory usage. You can do this at run-time, but also at launch with `top -o size`. Nathan --=20 GPG Public Key ID: 0x4250A04C gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 4250A04C http://63.105.21.156/gpg_nkinkade_4250A04C.asc --T6xhMxlHU34Bk0ad Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+l3SCWZYS9EJQoEwRAtyEAKCgwCp0dE4KM8MJop4pvCEpABrQHACfX6rn B6Ej5ZReKr6rlTgPgKpN1vY= =AM/3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --T6xhMxlHU34Bk0ad--
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