Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!pt.cs.cmu.edu!wb1.cs.cmu.edu!avie From: avie@wb1.cs.cmu.edu (Avadis Tevanian) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: swapfile size and hanging Message-ID: <6934@pt.cs.cmu.edu> Date: 11 Nov 89 02:46:20 GMT References: Distribution: usa Organization: NeXT, Inc. Lines: 18 In article swfc@mendelssohn.cs.columbia.edu (Shu-Wie F Chen) writes: > >My NeXT machine has been hanging recently. It seems that my swapfile grows >to my high watermark of 80Mbytes and then thrashes(?) to death. >What's going on? Yes, your machine is thrashing to death. You must be running some program with a severe memory leak (unfortunately, virtual memory systems tend to allow these to run for long times). If you notice your swapfile is large, launch a Shell and try something like "ps aux" Look under the VSIZE column (virtual size) for processes with huge virtual sizes. What to do next will depend on what you find. -- Avadis Tevanian, Jr. (Avie) Manager, System Software NeXT, Inc. avie@NeXT.COM