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- From: alek@spatial.com (Alek O. Komarnitsky)
- Subject: Re: force stopped process to swap space ?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug13.045733.22422@spatial.com>
- Keywords: swap space, stopped,
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- Organization: Spatial Technology, Inc. (Boulder, Colorado)
- References: <apian.713549256@ise.fhg.de>
- Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 04:57:33 GMT
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- In article <apian.713549256@ise.fhg.de> apian@ise.fhg.de (Peter Apian-Bennewitz) writes:
- >Monitor doesn't show any swapped out processes, the free memory
- >are a few bytes, swapspace is half full (90MB total), other programs
- >fail (e.g. "unable to fork","getcwd length > 1024?: Not enough space").
- Be careful trusting monitor too much. Although it is a very useful tool,
- it's not always accurate. For instance, compare swap space used from the
- Global screen to the output from /etc/swapinfo (8.07 and up).
-
- This one bugged me for a while on my 8.05 machines, since I could not
- understand why things were dying when monitor showed lots of swap
- space left. Interestingly enough, although monitor doesn't seem to
- detect the "hold" space used, it does know when file system swap
- is being used.
-
- Alek Komarnitsky 303-449-0649
- Software Tools Manager, Spatial Technology, Inc. 2425 55th Street, Bldg A
- alek@spatial.com Boulder, CO 80301-5704
-