Henry Jen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have been troubled by unresponsive system with non-stop disk
> activities, my guess is the system do paging like crazy. As many
> times, this comes along with some "failed to fork" or "out of memory"
> problem.
>
> This time, trying to open a pdf file, and started with following error
> is a catastrophic core dumps of several processes: evince, netbeans,
> thunderbird and glassfish.
>
> What commands/tools can I use to figure out what process is doing all
> the disk activity?
>
> I know I probably should increase my swap partition size from current
> 0.5 GB, what would you suggest for a better value. I got 1.5 GB RAM on
> the system, is 3 GB for swap a good number?
>
> Cheers,
> Henry
>
>
>  cairo context error: out of memory
> Error: failed to load truetype font
>
> some font thing failed
> cairo context error: out of memory
> Error: failed to load truetype font
>
> some font thing failed
> cairo context error: out of memory
>
> (evince:4229): GdkPixbuf-CRITICAL **: file gdk-pixbuf.c: line 454:
> assertion `GDK_IS_PIXBUF (pixbuf)' failed
>
> (evince:4229): GdkPixbuf-CRITICAL **: file gdk-pixbuf.c: line 503:
> assertion `GDK_IS_PIXBUF (pixbuf)' failed
>
> (evince:4229): GdkPixbuf-CRITICAL **: file gdk-pixbuf.c: line 544:
> assertion `GDK_IS_PIXBUF (pixbuf)' failed
>
> [1]+  Segmentation Fault      (core dumped) evince /tmp/tnt.pdf
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vmstat and dtrace could help.

http://blogs.sun.com/nickstephen/entry/dtrace_and_moving_rolling_averages

James
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