atom feed11 messages in org.freebsd.freebsd-hackersRe: Way to flush swap
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Khetan GajjarJun 16, 1996 5:53 am 
Gary PalmerJun 16, 1996 8:19 am 
Khetan GajjarJun 16, 1996 1:29 pm 
Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.comJun 17, 1996 2:30 am 
Khetan GajjarJun 17, 1996 3:28 am 
Don YuniskisJun 17, 1996 4:10 am 
Daniel O'CallaghanJun 17, 1996 4:28 am 
Michael SmithJun 17, 1996 4:34 am 
Khetan GajjarJun 17, 1996 7:01 am 
Amancio HastyJun 17, 1996 12:48 pm 
Amancio HastyJun 17, 1996 1:00 pm 
Subject:Re: Way to flush swap
From:Khetan Gajjar (khe@iafrica.com)
Date:Jun 16, 1996 1:29:45 pm
List:org.freebsd.freebsd-hackers

On Sun, 16 Jun 1996, Gary Palmer wrote:

Do you quit out of X too? You run `netscape'. `xearth', `xdaliclock'

Yes.

and `xload', all of which do large numbers of bitmap operations and likely trigger a large memory usage situation in the server. (i.e. the memory leak bug).

I do exit out of X, and do a kill -9 -1 as the user that executed those programs, i.e khetan

I'm running a -stable from earlier this month (June 2nd) and do NOT have this sort of problem...

Hmmm. I downloaded the latest sources today, and did a make world. Things were looking promising; very little swap was being used, and then when I quit out of everything swap utilisation didn't drop (as normal). Right now, it's sitting on 57% used, and there are no user-invoked processes on the machine.

(BTW: Your nice little sed expression trimmed out a lot of info which

;-)

could have been useful, like the %MEM, VSZ and RSS of the applications...)

Apologies. Do you want them ?

[chain] ~$ ps -uaxwwwww | grep khetan khetan 7913 9.2 14.3 6632 4392 ?? S 10:26PM 0:22.44 /usr/local/lib/netscape/netscape.bin khetan 270 2.1 3.4 1596 1040 p3 Is+ 7:05PM 0:05.89 (pine) khetan 238 0.0 1.9 440 588 ?? S 7:04PM 0:21.03 fvwm95-2 -s khetan 242 0.0 0.0 660 0 p1 IWs+ 7:04PM 0:00.37 -bash (bash) khetan 266 0.0 0.7 340 216 ?? S 7:05PM 0:10.27 rxvt -font 7x14 -T Top -n Top khetan 267 0.4 1.0 476 304 p2 Ss+ 7:05PM 1:16.87 top khetan 274 0.0 0.0 680 24 p4 IWs+ 7:05PM 0:01.75 -bash (bash) khetan 285 0.1 1.7 704 520 p5 Ss 7:05PM 0:04.23 -bash (bash) khetan 302 0.0 3.0 984 900 p4 I 7:06PM 3:13.73 xearth khetan 310 0.0 0.8 340 240 ?? S 7:08PM 0:01.26 rxvt -T PPP session khetan 4009 0.0 0.7 252 196 ?? I 7:24PM 0:00.47 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fvwm95-2//FvwmButtons 8 5 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fvwm95-2/.fvwm2rc95 0 8 khetan 4010 0.0 1.3 244 404 ?? S 7:24PM 0:02.21 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fvwm95-2//FvwmTaskBar 10 5 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fvwm95-2/.fvwm2rc95 0 8 khetan 4011 0.0 0.2 156 68 ?? S 7:24PM 0:00.32 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fvwm95-2//FvwmAuto 12 5 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fvwm95-2/.fvwm2rc95 0 8 200 khetan 4012 0.0 0.0 464 0 ?? IW 7:25PM 0:00.03 /bin/sh -c xdaliclock -builtin -fn 12x24 -geometry -5-5 khetan 4013 0.1 0.7 292 208 ?? S 7:25PM 1:17.63 xdaliclock khetan 4014 0.0 0.0 468 0 ?? IW 7:25PM 0:00.02 /bin/sh -c nice -16 xload -fg red -nolabel -bg grey60 -update 5 -geometry -1500-1500 khetan 4015 0.0 1.0 256 284 ?? SN 7:25PM 0:03.64 xload khetan 4016 0.0 0.8 224 232 ?? S 7:25PM 0:02.42 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fvwm95-2//FvwmPager 14 5 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fvwm95-2/.fvwm2rc95 0 8 0 0 khetan 7912 0.0 0.5 464 160 ?? I 10:26PM 0:00.03 /bin/sh -c netscape khetan 7919 0.0 0.9 500 264 p5 R+ 10:29PM 0:00.02 ps -uaxwwwww khetan 7920 0.0 1.5 176 444 p5 R+ 10:29PM 0:00.03 grep khetan [chain] ~$

[chain] ~$ swapinfo Device 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Type /dev/wd1s1b 44128 24908 19156 57% Interleaved [chain] ~$