>>P.S.  Is there a swap alarm available?  It'd be nice to have some warning 
>>that swap was about to be exhausted!
> 
> Dunno about that. It seems a good idea. top can be a useful indicator of
> this, however. I typically run it inside its own xterm all the time so I
> can routinely check things like that.

Yeah, there's a whole slew of these types of monitoring programs available. 
You'll typically have the best results with the ones that do it via SNMP, and
then can monitor entire networks of machines for these types of problems.

And using `M' from within top sorts by memory usage.

Dave


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