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
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