Dear managers,
This morning our Alphaserver 8400 (running DU4.0b, 2GB RAM) was with
90% of the 4.3GB swapspace full (we have lazy swap policy).
# swapon -s
Swap partition /dev/rz13c:
Allocated space: 523755 pages (4091MB)
In-use space: 480012 pages ( 91%)
Free space: 43743 pages ( 8%)
Total swap allocation:
Allocated space: 523755 pages (4091MB)
In-use space: 480012 pages ( 91%)
Available space: 43743 pages ( 8%)
We have a loadscheduler that checks
the free swapspace in order to hold or send new jobs from the
different queues. Now, no queueing job is despached for running
and the 8 CPUs of the Server have no load whatsoever (the phone
keeps ringing with complaining users). We configured this because
of a problem we had last week, where the swap spaced got full
and the system began killing random processes until we couldn't
even login at console, and we had to reboot.
I have tried a ps auxww to look for the processes with a lot
of VSZ but I can sum up only about 1.5GB of the 4.3GB available
swap.
Is there a way to determine which process is taking up all
that swap space? Or is the only way out a reboot of the system
(I would rather not reboot)?
Thanks in advance
Monica
Received on Mon Jul 07 1997 - 11:34:48 NZST