-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Clayton wrote: >>> 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. > > Hmm that was quite interesting. I discovered a couple leftovers > hanging around from a failed experiment with Joost. Cleaned them out. > Swap use dropped a little... but it almost immediately went to the > max available swap > > swapon -s > Filename Type Size Used > Priority > /dev/hda2 partition 4192956 4192956 -1 > > These are the top swap using processes now: > > 145m mythbackend > 142m ekiga > 121m mysqld-max > 116m firefox-bin > 110m nscd > 85m amarokapp > 77m mythfrontend > 55m pidgin > 53m kmail > 53m httpd2-prefork > > Nothing too extreme... there is more of course, but nothing that adds > up to anything near the total physical RAM I have let alone the swap. > > I can't do a swapoff either. > > swapoff /dev/hda2 > swapoff: /dev/hda2: Cannot allocate memory > > which I assume is because swap used is greater than available RAM, and > the swapoff attempts to move whatever is on disk back to RAM? > > As soon as I start anything that tops off the available RAM space > (launch a VMWare session for example), performance plummets... which > makes sense since there is no swap partition available. > > I know.. I could just reboot... I probably will. It just seems so > wrong that this is the only solution I can find to freeing up the lost > swap space. > > C.
last time I saw this famd was the culprit... also caused performance issues and some other odd behaviour... restarted famd and problem went away... However, I was doing some testing with some code which at the time did use rather a lot of memory and it did not always exit terribly cleanly, mainly because I killed it rather frequently ... - -- ============================================================================== I have always wished that my computer would be as easy to use as my telephone. My wish has come true. I no longer know how to use my telephone. Bjarne Stroustrup ============================================================================== -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHM0/jasN0sSnLmgIRArB5AJ4z/W+/vgNT87VZ5ZqtwsvoI6JRjwCfZySa TyF/cddLqREBc7OF/DQ/tj0= =LlRa -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
