Re: swapfile being eaten by unknown process

2005-02-17 Thread John
On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 17:31:05 +0100 (CET), Oliver Fromme wrote [snippage] > > You do not need more RAM. At most, a little more swap > space wouldn't hurt, but even that isn't strictly > necessary, given that only 18% of your swap are in use. > I'd start worrying if that number goes beyond 50%.

Re: swapfile being eaten by unknown process

2005-02-16 Thread Uwe Doering
Kris Kennaway wrote: On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 04:11:31PM +, John wrote: Another data point - I see this in my nightly security logs: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: device: ad0s1f, blkno: 28190, size: 4096 maybe there's a bad block on the swap partition?? That's what this usually means, yes

Re: swapfile being eaten by unknown process

2005-02-15 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 04:11:31PM +, John wrote: > Another data point - I see this in my nightly security logs: > > swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: device: ad0s1f, blkno: 28190, size: 4096 > > maybe there's a bad block on the swap partition?? That's what this usually means, yes. Kris

Re: swapfile being eaten by unknown process

2005-02-15 Thread Oliver Fromme
John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for your input so far. Here is the output from top: > > last pid: 59737; load averages: 0.02, 0.03, 0.00up 1+18:32:57 > 15:16:36 > 82 processes: 1 running, 79 sleeping, 2 zombie > CPU states: 0.4% user, 0.0% nice, 0.4% system, 0.0% inte

Re: swapfile being eaten by unknown process

2005-02-15 Thread John
On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 22:35:55 -0600, Dan Nelson wrote > In the last episode (Feb 14), Kris Kennaway said: > > On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 01:30:42AM +, John wrote: > > > Is there a way of seeing *what* program/process is eating swap. > > > There are loads of ways of seeing that it is being eaten, bu

Re: swapfile being eaten by unknown process

2005-02-15 Thread John
On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 22:35:55 -0600, Dan Nelson wrote > In the last episode (Feb 14), Kris Kennaway said: > > On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 01:30:42AM +, John wrote: > > > Is there a way of seeing *what* program/process is eating swap. > > > There are loads of ways of seeing that it is being eaten, bu

Re: swapfile being eaten by unknown process

2005-02-14 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Feb 14), Kris Kennaway said: > On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 01:30:42AM +, John wrote: > > Is there a way of seeing *what* program/process is eating swap. > > There are loads of ways of seeing that it is being eaten, but so > > far haven't found a way of knowing what eats, so can

Re: swapfile being eaten by unknown process

2005-02-14 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 01:30:42AM +, John wrote: > Hello list > > Is there a way of seeing *what* program/process is eating swap. There are > loads of ways of seeing that it is being eaten, but so far haven't found a way > of knowing what eats, so can't fix the problem. Can anyone enlighten m