On Tue, 2006-06-06 at 13:20 -0400, Sam Drinkard wrote: > > Kai Schaetzl wrote: > > >Sam Drinkard wrote on Mon, 05 Jun 2006 19:55:09 -0400: > ><snip> > ... with > swappiness set to 0 is OK, but this morning when I looked at things, I > see where during the night, swap usage went from 2.2 mb to 221 mb., and > I assume due to the nightly cron jobs, i.e., slocate, updatedb, etc. > The actual processes I'm concerned about run during the time period that > the cron jobs run too, so maybe the machine did at some point, hit OOM > state, but hard to say without being here to look. > > So, back to the question ... is ps man page wrong or have I read > something into the text that I am mis interpreting? Regardless of that, it sounds like your situation indicates a need to run SAR. Turn on your system accounting collection and the reports will let you see exactly what's happening with memory, swap, HD, ... and when. I presume that these are as good or better than the old UNIX ones I remember. Once you have the bullets, I'm not sure what you might shoot, but you ought to kill *something* just for the aggravation you've been caused! ;-) > Sam > <snip sig stuff> -- Bill -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20060606/481bd696/attachment-0004.sig>