[BUGS] clearing out swap space ..

[jonathan michaels]

   edwin

   thanks for the post. ap[preciated

On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 10:48:49PM +1100, Edwin Groothuis wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 10:42:36PM +1100, jonathan michaels wrote:
> >    greetings all

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

   its a whole heap of kde apps running inside  kde on x11 it is my desktop
   machine/gui workstation .. its whats i 's gots

   xorg eats up 99 M the k stuff comes in at 300,000K there is about a doxen or
   so. i estime its going to lock up tomorrow or friday at latest them i'm going
   to restart and keep a window open on teh sesktop with top/systat -vmstat and
   :swap open to watch what happens .. whatever it is that is happening it is
   doing it slowly but  not 'reliably/repeatably so all that i can say now is that
   it takes 2 to 3 months and then it locksup after all teh swap space is
   exhausted ,,, ggrrr, bit annoying me thinks.

   away from rebooting/restarting is there anyway of clearing out teh swap space
   memory .. would using temporay/filesysten (vnode i think its called) swap space
   in a dedicated filesystem space and .. this is starting to sound weird .. sorry

   this machine has only 256 mb dram and cannot be upgraded .. no matter what
   (hardware limitations- memory controller only understands 128mb dimms)  

   thanks and regards

   jonathan

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