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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.sprintlink.net!news.ais.net!shell1.ais.net!adoane From: adoane@shell1.ais.net (Andrew Doane) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Swapping problems? Running out of memory. Date: 14 Aug 1995 15:39:32 GMT Organization: American Information Systems, Inc. Lines: 14 Message-ID: <40nqnk$19q@news.ais.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: shell1.ais.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Ram: 32M Swap: 128M I am getting 'not able to fork: cannot allocate memory' errors. I've been using top, vmstat, etc., in an attempt to watch swapping, but I'm still unclear as to how vmstat/top report memory usage. Real/virtual/free. I would assume real is ram, virtual is swap, and free should be a total of the two, but its not. I've also played with limit(s)-- that doesn't seem to be the problem. Anyone? /ajd/