On Tuesday 18 January 2005 02:44 am, Scott Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I can't provide much details as I'm not sure where to begin with > > details. > > And that certainly adds to the challenge on all this. I hate to suggest > rebooting as I mercilessly taunt windows users for doing that all the > time, but with your large swapfile usage it feels like you might have > processes with a memory leak. Reboot and try emerging one or two > packages as soon as the machine comes back up. If that does bring > performance back to normal, then it probably is related to all the swap > being used. I do have programs that seem to keep using more memory as > time passes. At various times, xmms, gaim, and firefox have gotten silly > with their memory demands, though it was usually a plugin of some sort > that was the real cause.
If one of those is the problem, then rc boot; <kill unneeded procs>; rc default should clean things nicely. No need to screw up your uptime with a reboot. >:) -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
