swap space

[Dan Nelson]

In the last episode (Dec 12), M.D. DeWar said:
> Thanks, Read the man.  so heres a print out. some makes sense. others
> . don't like what is up referring to ?
> still tho i don't see what is eating up 373M of swap space ?

well, mysqld is probably consuming most of it, since it's almost
completely swapped out (319MB process size, but only 3M in memory).
Those two perl processes are the real problem, though.  Are you sure
that's mrtg?  My mrtg processes don't take more than 9MB when they're
running.
 
> Last pid: 80656;  load averages:  3.21,  3.23,  3.16  
> 59 processes:  4 running, 55 sleeping
> CPU states: 75.9% user,  0.0% nice, 19.0% system,  5.2% interrupt,  0.0% idle
> Mem: 179M Active, 19M Inact, 38M Wired, 8212K Cache, 35M Buf, 1744K Free
> Swap: 512M Total, 373M Used, 139M Free, 72% Inuse, 424K In, 316K Out
> 
>   PID USERNAME  PRI NICE  SIZE    RES STATE    TIME   WCPU    CPU COMMAND
>   342 mysql       2   0   318M  3092K poll    21:49  0.05%  0.05% mysqld
> 13927 root      -22   0   173M 91564K swread  32:31 14.01% 14.01% perl
> 73396 root       51   0   151M 80728K RUN     13:46 23.73% 23.73% perl
> 39818 snortman    4   0 43844K  2940K bpf      3:06  0.00%  0.00% snort
> 39189 nobody     18   0 24216K     0K lockf    0:25  0.00%  0.00% httpd

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	Dan Nelson
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