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Date:      Mon, 1 Sep 1997 11:25:04 -0600 (MDT)
From:      Wes Peters <softweyr@xmission.com>
To:        "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net>
Cc:        graphix@iastate.edu (Kent Vander Velden), questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: swap usage
Message-ID:  <199709011725.LAA05901@obie.softweyr.ml.org>
In-Reply-To: <199708300732.CAA00657@dyson.iquest.net>
References:  <199708300700.CAA11451@mailhub.iastate.edu> <199708300732.CAA00657@dyson.iquest.net>

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John S. Dyson writes:
 > 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.

Gents, whenever I see this problem, it is caused by Java applets in
Netscape eating all available virtual memory.  Did Mr. Vander Velden
have any long-running applets up in Netscape?

-- 
          "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"

Wes Peters                                                       Softweyr LLC
http://www.xmission.com/~softweyr                       softweyr@xmission.com



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