[BUGS] clearing out swap space ..

[Edwin Groothuis]

On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 10:42:36PM +1100, jonathan michaels wrote:
>    greetings all
> 
>    i'm wondering if what i am seeing on a freebsd v6.2-release (iso-cdrom images
>    cut to cd) installed been runing for a about 6 months and has been doing this
>    ever since installation.
> 
>    it seems to to slowly consume swap space and just locks up when it exhausts teh
>    available swap space .. teh screen display verticle bars right across teh
>    screen all the 16 colours over and over again.
> 
>    i never had thes problems with freebsd v2.x (when i ran x11) or v5.x just with
>    v6 .. i'm trying to understand what is going on here ?? i've looked at man and
>    couldn't find any thing that looks like it would be appropriate.
> 
>    pointers suggestions/explanation .. appreciated

If you use top(1), you can sort on the SIZE column and see what is
eating your memory.

Edwin

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