Just as a suggestion-
try killing one process then another and note if
the swaping to disk contiues. Be sure you execute
"sync" b4 doing so. and check the size of your swap
partition.
terry
----- Original Message -----
From: Christopher Quale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, November 01, 1999 1:27 PM
Subject: RE: [expert] Disk Swapping
> This can be caused by any process thats eats up so much
> memory that the system does not have enought resources to
> respond to even keystrokes. It sounds like you may have
> a process (maybe squid) that is either leaking memory or
> is using up a bunch. Issue the "top" command (once it has
> started press 'M', w/out the quotes to sort the processes
> by memory usage) to see what may be using up all your memory.
>
> hth,
> Chris
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Sunday, October 31, 1999 7:27 PM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: [expert] Disk Swapping
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > folks,
> > i've got this weird problem where my system starts to swap heavily
> > after one
> > or two weeks of continous running. The only thing i have running is
squid
> > and
> > tkined. Once it starts swapping i have to reboot the system as I can't
> > kill the
> > x-server with cntrl-alt-backspace.
> > Can this be caused by squid itself?
> >
> >
>
>
