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From: tjevans@raleigh.ibm.com (Thomas Evans)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: 2.2 GAMMA 2/5 results in SWAP FULL?
Date: 12 Feb 1997 16:30:31 GMT
Organization: ISSC South Region, RTP, NC
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> After switching from Linux to FreeBSD :) I was surprised at the
> differences in swap sizes as well. However I have found that
> FreeBSD when given a lot of swap space to work with is more responsive
> than Linux under the same conditions. Some unices require more swap and
> manage it better. The AIX CAD box I use at work has 128 Megs of ram and
> 256 Megs of swap.
Well using "ps -aux", vmstat, pstat -s, this is the current picture, my
math tells me that there is either a memory leak or the kernel is not
freeing up SWAP space. A 32 Meg machine with 17.5 Meg of swap space in
use...thats 50Meg, ok , where is it?
procs memory page disks faults cpu
r b w avm fre flt re pi po fr sr s0 s1 c0 in sy cs us sy id
0 0 02654440 5824 2 0 0 0 2 6 0 0 0 234 247 55 2 1 97
Device 512-blocks Used Avail Capacity Type
/dev/sd1s1b 40960 34992 5840 86% Interleaved
USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TT STAT STARTED TIME COMMAND
tjevans 1921 0.0 1.0 456 284 p0 R+ 6:27AM 0:00.00 ps -aux
root 1 0.0 0.1 384 12 ?? Is 11:28AM 0:00.03 /sbin/init --
root 2 0.0 0.1 0 12 ?? DL 11:28AM 0:03.12 (pagedaemon)
root 3 0.0 0.1 0 12 ?? DL 11:28AM 0:00.00 (vmdaemon)
root 4 0.0 0.1 0 12 ?? DL 11:28AM 0:10.58 (update)
root 76 0.0 0.8 196 248 ?? Is 11:30AM 0:00.71 syslogd
daemon 82 0.0 0.5 176 148 ?? Is 11:30AM 0:00.01 portmap
root 89 0.0 0.1 416 12 ?? Is 11:30AM 0:00.01 mountd
root 91 0.0 0.1 232 12 ?? Is 11:30AM 0:00.01 nfsd: master (
root 93 0.0 0.1 224 12 ?? I 11:30AM 0:00.00 nfsd: server (
root 94 0.0 0.1 224 12 ?? I 11:30AM 0:00.00 nfsd: server (
root 95 0.0 0.1 224 12 ?? I 11:30AM 0:00.00 nfsd: server (
root 96 0.0 0.1 224 12 ?? I 11:30AM 0:00.00 nfsd: server (
root 97 0.0 0.5 176 148 ?? Is 11:30AM 0:00.00 rpc.statd
root 104 0.0 0.1 208 12 ?? I 11:30AM 0:00.00 nfsiod -n 4
root 105 0.0 0.1 208 12 ?? I 11:30AM 0:00.00 nfsiod -n 4
root 106 0.0 0.1 208 12 ?? I 11:30AM 0:00.00 nfsiod -n 4
root 107 0.0 0.1 208 12 ?? I 11:30AM 0:00.00 nfsiod -n 4
root 120 0.0 0.7 192 216 ?? Is 11:30AM 0:00.10 inetd
root 122 0.0 0.9 332 268 ?? Ss 11:30AM 0:01.33 cron
root 125 0.0 0.5 204 148 ?? Is 11:30AM 0:00.03 lpd
root 128 0.0 0.6 528 188 ?? Is 11:30AM 0:00.15 sendmail: acce
tjevans 186 0.0 0.8 872 232 v0 Is 11:30AM 0:00.26 -bash (bash)
root 187 0.0 0.5 164 148 v1 Is+ 11:30AM 0:00.02 /usr/libexec/g
root 188 0.0 0.5 164 148 v2 Is+ 11:30AM 0:00.02 /usr/libexec/g
tjevans 192 0.0 1.1 172 324 v0 I+ 11:31AM 0:00.06 xinit -- -bpp
root 193 0.7 17.9 4468 5448 ?? S 11:31AM 14:19.91 X :0 -bpp 16 (
tjevans 196 0.0 2.5 468 740 v0 I 11:31AM 0:10.41 fvwm2
tjevans 198 0.0 5.2 1288 1588 v0 S 11:31AM 4:26.86 xfmail
tjevans 199 0.0 3.9 1692 1192 v0 S 11:31AM 0:22.31 wish4.1 /usr/l
tjevans 200 0.0 2.1 204 648 v0 I 11:31AM 0:01.01 xclock
root 204 0.0 3.3 536 984 v0 R 11:31AM 0:04.39 /usr/X11/bin/x
tjevans 205 0.0 2.0 892 600 p0 Ss 11:31AM 0:01.01 -bash (bash)
tjevans 207 0.0 9.6 7572 2928 v0 I 11:33AM 2:11.36 netscape
tjevans 230 0.0 4.9 2468 1476 v0 I 11:48AM 0:13.96 knews
tjevans 238 0.0 9.8 2892 2988 v0 I 11:49AM 0:21.11 emacs -font -m
tjevans 239 0.0 0.8 188 236 ?? Is 11:49AM 0:00.03 /usr/local/lib
tjevans 1837 0.0 2.0 204 612 v0 I 5:57AM 0:00.23 /usr/X11R6/lib
tjevans 1916 0.0 0.6 476 184 ?? Is 6:25AM 0:00.01 sh -c xterm -e
root 1917 0.0 5.5 460 1672 ?? I 6:25AM 0:00.33 xterm -e emacs
tjevans 1918 0.0 1.5 216 440 p1 Is+ 6:25AM 0:00.04 emacsclient +1
root 0 0.0 0.0 0 0 ?? DLs 11:28AM 0:00.16 (swapper)
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Tom Evans tjevans@raleigh.ibm.com
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