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> >>SWAP is not necessarily a bad thing. It is mealy a simple way of moving |
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> >>unused code from memory so that it can be better used, ie disk caching. |
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> >>Swap can be bad if you have insufficient memory to run your processes. |
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> >>If your system has lots of disk activity, the OS will assign memory to |
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> >>cache the disk. This may where you memory is going. |
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> >>You say that your system is using perl. What else? Apache? MySQL/PgSQL? |
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> >>etc ... |
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> >I'm running interchange (http://www.icdevgroup.org), apache2, |
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> >mod_perl2, and mysql. I run courier-imap and postfix for email, but |
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> >I'm the only user. I use php only for squirrelmail. |
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> Just a check here, it is the -latest- version of Squirrelmail. There was |
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> one version that would cause my server to use -all- its RAM and swap |
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> (and eventually just reboot) when i clicked reply (memory leak |
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> somewhere) which has since been sorted. |
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I just synced and it looks like I'm not using the latest Squirrelmail. |
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The output is a little strange though. I'm going to start another |
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thread about that. Thanks for the tip! |
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- Grant |
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> Just a thought. |
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> Tim |
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