[Wlug] Problem with xosview SWAP space.

Karl Hiramoto karl at hiramoto.org
Wed Aug 23 09:26:59 EDT 2006


ken jones wrote:
> I have been running Fedora Core 4 for at least a year.  It has the 
> problem of slow consumption of swap space - see graphic.  After a week 
> or two it runs out and LINUX crashes.
>
> I have found no help in GOOGLE which surprises me.  Did I install 
> incorrectly?  What do you all think?
>

I would guess you have a memory leak in an application, kernel, or 
kernel driver module.   Should be able to see what the cause is.    send 
us more info on your system do these commands and paste us the results:

ps auxw
lspci
uname -a
lsmod
vmstat
dmesg


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