On Thursday 08 November 2007 05:05:55 pm Clayton wrote: > openSUSE 10.2 on a computer with 2GB of RAM and a 4GB swap partition > > Over time I've seen my swap partition get "full". It is currently > sitting at 4029 of 4095 Mb with no applications running (outside of > the KDE desktop). > > Things are fine until I do something that pushes things out of RAM and > into swap... then the computer slows right down as it twiddles with > whatever debris is left laying around in the swap and finds room to > swap out new stuff. > > Is this normal? I have never noticed the swap partition filling up > like this, and remaining "full" over an extended period including > through logout and login (not reboot). Usually, when things get > swapped to disk I see the partition use increase... then when it is no > longer needed that swapped data is released/removed, and the swap > partition falls back to zero. Lately, over the past 2 weeks (with no > updates), that swap space is not being released. > > I know (expect) if I reboot, that the swap will reset to zero... or if > I do a swapoff and then swapon I should see it all reset back to > zero... but, that is not really telling me why the swap space is not > released. > > Anyone have any insight on this? Or know a good resource on finding > out what is stuck in the swap space?
top [f],[p],[Space] then [F],[p],[Space] Mind the case of the "f" You'll get the process list with the most swap at the top. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
