Subject: Re: system lock ups, maybe out of memory
To: None <netbsd-help@NetBSD.org>
From: Bob Bernstein <rs@bernstein.providence.ri.us>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 06/01/2004 17:40:38
On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 04:55:44PM -0400, Charles Swiger wrote:
> You're using 90% of your swap space; you will see X11 and other
> programs fail ungracefully when you run out of VM.
I have a system with 512M ram and 255M swap and I _still_ seem to
inevitably gobble almost all of the latter. I tend to run a lot of
stuff.
Is there a way to inspect which processes at any given moment are
having recourse to swap space?
--
Bob Bernstein
"A modern philosopher who has never once suspected himself of
being a charlatan must be such a shallow mind that his work is
probably not worth reading." Leszek Kolakowski