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From: "Kent Vander Velden" <graphix@iastate.edu>
To: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net>
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Subject: Re: swap usage
Date: Sat, 30 Aug 1997 10:05:38 -0500
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  Top has been running and never once have I seen the swap usage go above
100M of the total 256M.

> Maybe you are transiently using swap space?  Is there a process that
> starts/stops and you simply run out of swap?  Several of the programs
> above can get very large...  There is no other people having the problem
> that you are seeing.  You might want to do a ps -xla or cat /proc/*/map,
> and see if there are any huge programs.