Swap partition out of control
Over the last couple of days, I have been noticing that I have been
getting "Out of Memory" errors that I never got before.
I just looked at my free output and it showed 18M of swap used, after
running "swapoff /dev/hda3" and then "swapon /dev/hda3", it showed 10M
used. I also have a second swap partition on another drive.
One other symptom. I saw a message on tty7 saying:
INIT: Id "s2" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
The process with id 2 is kflushd. What is kflushd?
The only thing I can think of that has changed is that I switched from my
own installation of Netscape to Brian White's, which allowed Java applets
to work (thanks Brian). Could Java applets cause a memory leak? Or is
something else wrong here?
Steve Tonnesen
tonnesen@cmsd.bc.ca
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