Re: Exaggerated swap usage

[Dmitri <dmitri@users.sourceforge.net>]

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On Fri, 2002-11-29 at 22:49, Javier Marcet wrote:
> * khromy <khromy@lnuxlab.ath.cx> [021130 07:33]:
> 
> >BTW, I'm running 2.4.20-rc4-ac1+preempt and it seems to run good but
> >whenever I leave for a few hours or wake up in the morning mozilla is
> >swaped out.. Any idea when/how this might be fixed?
> 
> I have the problem without leaving it a few hours, but when I do it gets
> definitely worse. Last vmstat output I quoted here showed around 256MB
> swapped. A few hours later - the computer had been sitting idle, only
> the mail server for three users was running which poses no overhead at
> all -, the entire 512MB SWAP space was used. Why, I don't know.

As I saw the thread today, I started looking at it myself, on RH's
 2.4.18-18.8.0. By now I have:

 1  0  0 432892  23828  44648 407208   0   0     0    24  780   879  95   5   0
         ======

However, top says:

  PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM   TIME COMMAND
 1450 dmitri    15   0  546M 178M 16212 S     1.1 23.6  21:50 pan

I close pan, and what a change!

 3  0  0 432664  20720  44748 410260  88   0   392    20  710   925  95   4   1
 1  0  0  46316 197172  44760 409684  40   0    40   160  782  1177  88  12   0

So you probably still have some process which is eating your memory. And
once you find it, restart it:

  PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM   TIME COMMAND
 3994 dmitri    15   0 15044  14M  6152 S     0.9  1.9   0:00 pan

Dmitri


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