swap space

[Jerry McAllister]

> 
> I seem to be running out of swap space
> swapinfo shows 80-95% filled.
> Mostly from mrtg. 
> is there a way to see whats else is eating it up ? 
> I guess a ls doesn't work on it .
> this machine has 256megs of ram and 512MB swap space.
> anything I can do ?

Because of the efficient paging algorithm it will always show
almost full swap space.

Someone else can better explain it than I, but there have been several
discussions of it on the lists so searching should dredge up some
good information.

////jerry

> 
> Mark 
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