Memory use

[Steve Wampler]

On Thu, 2004-03-04 at 12:35, thedogfarted wrote:
> does it uses swap space for accelerating everything too?? because now it 
> has "eaten" all avilable memory and starts to "eat" swap space. Until 
> this i've never seen anything in my swap partition, now there are 44M.

Yes, it also moves 'old' processes to swap to leave more memory
for active processes.

Lots of tools are available for looking at processes and memory.
One of my favorite is 'qps'.  Look for it on 'freshmeat.net' if
you don't have it installed already.

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Steve Wampler -- swampler at noao.edu
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