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Date:      Mon, 30 Mar 1998 14:41:49 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        brian@worldcontrol.com
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: swap: 43MB used?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980330144041.24859I-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <19980328042424.A4459@top.worldcontrol.com>

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On Sat, 28 Mar 1998 brian@worldcontrol.com wrote:

> Swap: 64M Total, 41M Used, 23M Free, 64% Inuse
> 
> I run -current on my laptop and use the save to disk feature
> of the laptop rather extensively.  It seems my swap gets consumed 
> and not released.
> 
> Primarily I run
> 
> 5 rxvt sessions
> 5 zsh sessions (modern type with shared libs and loadable modules)
> 1 netscape 4.04 with 3 navigator windows
> 1 applixware spreadsheet app.
> 1 afterstep 1.4.4 with 9 windows (1024x768 each)

Yipe.  64MB of swap may not be enough for all that.

> Generally I start with 11M of swap used and as time goes along it is
> all used.  Closing netscape and the applixware app gets me back to
> only 41M used.   

How about exiting X?  There are known memory leaks in X and Netscape.

> Who is holding on to the 41M?

The system may be holding on to it and will commit out when it needs the
swap.  Check 'top' and see who's hogging all the memory.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major



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