Re: [flalug] has anyone noted odd swap file activity on a fairly regular schedule

From: Smitty (a.smitty@verizon.net)
Date: Wed Feb 25 2004 - 15:54:44 EST


On Wednesday 25 February 2004 15:23, you wrote:
> Hello all,
> I'm a newbie to the list but I've been around Linux for a while. I have
> one of my servers monitored for excessive cpu and memory usage. When they
> exceed limits it generates me an e-mail. Periodically I get paged for
> excessive memory utilization around 3pm and I hop onto the server and start
> looking around for a process that is active with a high amount of memory
> usage. I never find anything out of the ordinary. It is a web/mysql
> server running rh8. The server doesn't seem to be bogged down because of
> it, but I'm curious as to what is going on. I have 256mb physical and a
> 256mb swap. I have at most a dozen people on the site at any given time and
> I checked netstat and there couldn't have been more than 3 or 4 people on
> the machine.
I wonder if mysql is updating around 1500. I would increase your memory to
500 MB and that may handle the problem.
>
> I also checked my cron entries looking for one that runs around 3 pm and
> there is none. Everything runs in the evening in the exception of some
> that run regularly all day long.
>
> TIA
>
> Larry
>
> PS. I will try to attend the next meeting. How late do you usually go?
2-3 hours
> What is the attendance usually like?
6-12 people, although this one will probably be more.
Smitty



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