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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!newsfeed.direct.ca!news.uoregon.edu!tezcat!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!worldnet.att.net!news.maxwell.syr.edu!insync!uunet!in3.uu.net!140.142.64.3!news.u.washington.edu!root From: "Steven G. Kargl" <kargl@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: 2.2 GAMMA 2/5 results in SWAP FULL? Date: Tue, 11 Feb 1997 14:23:46 -0800 Organization: Applied Physics Lab Lines: 23 Message-ID: <3300F172.41C67EA6@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> References: <m267zzxceb.fsf@golfgod.raleigh.ibm.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: troutmask.apl.washington.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT i386) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:35521 Thomas Evans wrote: > > Ran it for about 2 days, SWAP went full (I have 32M real, 20M swap), > I killed everything (X, xfmail, emacs, etc etc) but top would show I'm not surprised that your swap space becomes full with a ratio of 32M real to 20M swap (especially if you are running X11). Without starting a religion war, I recommend a minimum of 2 times real memory for swap space. > Swap 20M Total, 100% Inuse > BTW TOP traps when trying to display user processes?? > pstat -s shows > 40960 blocks 4240 used, 36592 avails > vmstat shows > 2348 avail, 9460 free. > I guess I can't trust top? Will get newer version... -- Steve finger kargl@troutmask.apl.washington.edu http://troutmask.apl.washington.edu/~kargl/sgk.html