Re: Swap is eaten up

From: Kasper Dupont (kasperd_at_daimi.au.dk)
Date: 07/19/05 

Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 15:08:12 +0200

It is a bit unclear what your problem is. If the
problem just is, that you are running out of swap,
then the solution would be to add more swap.

If there is a leak, then that will of course not
help. In that case take a look on the size of the
virtual memory of the different processes:
grep VmSize /proc/*/status
And when you have a candidate, which may be the
culprit, then take a look on the maps pseudofile.

If the system is slowed down because of constant
disk access, then look for processes in non-
interruptible sleep.

If memory presure is too high, then add more
memory or look for the processes with the highest
residen set sizes. 

-- 
Kasper Dupont -- der bruger for meget tid på usenet.
Note to self: Don't try to allocate 256000 pages
with GFP_KERNEL on x86.

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