[rescue] swap slowly filling up on solaris 8 machines

[Steve Sandau]

David Passmore wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 06:46:33PM -0500, Brian Hechinger wrote:
> > i've been pointed at two boxes at work that have raised some concern among some
> > people here.  these machines are not doing a huge amount of work, nor are they
> > running a lot of different things, but they are consuming a tremendous amount
> > of swap.  is there a way to dig through the swap and see what's been placed
> > there?  has anyone else seen this?  i can't explain it, it seems very odd to me.
> > i don't see anything that should be consuming all this space.
> 
> If you're using tmpfs, look at files in /tmp as the likely culprit.

That sounds good. I find that "top" (from sunfreeware.com) gives me a
better idea of what's doing what, in case that's not it.
> 
> David
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