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Re: Swap always full



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David Berg wrote:

> It seems that with in 15 minutes of logging into my account I'm out of
> swap and low on physical memory.
> 
> Swap partition is 64 Meg and I have 128 Megs of Physical.  I'm
> upgrading to 1Gig very shortly but would still like to know why I'm
> swapping so much.
> 
> I usually only run Firefox, XMMS, Gaim, Gkrellm, and Gnome (It was
> swapping this much under enlightenment as well).
> 
> I don't even know where to start.
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> Dave Berg

Try `memstat` and see what application is using how much memory.

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