Re: PCBSD 10.0 crashing all the time

On Tue, Apr 01, 2014 at 03:04:11PM -0600, Terry Todd wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> I have a system that I installed PCBSD 10.0 on that has 6G of memory
> that keeps crashing all the time.  It will run for a few days and
> then build up the amount of swap used until it exhausts it and then
> crashes.
> 
> top output:
> 
> last pid: 47897;  load averages:  2.65,  2.56,  2.66                                                              up 4+01:21:07  15:57:52
> 168 processes: 2 running, 165 sleeping, 1 zombie
> CPU: 28.8% user,  0.0% nice, 49.4% system,  0.0% interrupt, 21.8% idle
> Mem: 2694M Active, 471M Inact, 2291M Wired, 3276K Cache, 290M Free
> ARC: 933M Total, 42M MFU, 740M MRU, 226K Anon, 14M Header, 137M Other
> Swap: 2304M Total, 1911M Used, 393M Free, 82% Inuse
> 
> 
> The swap numbers just keep increasing.  They never go down.
> 
> The only main apps running are xterm, firefox and konqueror.

Can you get top to sort by size? Try hitting 'o' and then typing 'size';
that works on my somewhat out of date system.

> Any ideas on how to fix it?

Hopefully you can get top to give you a list sorted by virtual memory size.
If not you can get that info from the ps command, but it looks prettier
in top. From there you can stop or restart the program that is eating all
the memory.

Oh, and the best way to see total swap usage is the 'pstat -T' command.
For example, on my system:

$ pstat -T
273/12328 files
0M/69931M swap space
$

-- 
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"What is mathematics? The age-old answer is, of course, that mathematics
 is what mathematicians do." - Donald Knuth
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