[CentOS] Swap memory: I can't reconcile this stuff.

Tue Jun 6 17:54:52 UTC 2006
William L. Maltby <BillsCentOS at triad.rr.com>

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
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