Summary: Running out of space in /tmp - (with one puzzle question at the end of this summary)

Thanks for the super fast replies.  16 response in 20 minutes.

Here's the summary:
Reason for the problem:  There is some run away process that eats up all the
memory.  I didn't find out which process before I reboot, I'll keep an eye
on it in the future.

Two ways to solve the problme without reboot:
1. use the swap command.
swap -l   ->to show my swap slice.
swap -a /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s1   -> to add my swap slice

2. use mkfile then swap like this:
mkfile 500m /opt/swapfile
swap -a /opt/swapfile
(dont forget to delete it after reboot)

Afterthoughts:
my df -lk still looks weird.
here's my `swap -l` output:
swapfile             dev  swaplo blocks   free
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s1   32,1      16 1052144 1052144

but my df -k looks like this:

/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0     490097   79444  361644    19%    /
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s5    3579989  843419 2700771    24%    /usr
/proc                      0       0       0     0%    /proc
fd                         0       0       0     0%    /dev/fd
mnttab                     0       0       0     0%    /etc/mnttab
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s4     482824  263233  171309    61%    /var
swap                 1010792       8 1010784     1%    /var/run
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
swap                 1010792       8 1010784     1%    /tmp
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s6    3579989 2493988 1050202    71%    /opt

I only have 513MB assigned for swap, and 640MB of RAM, why would I have two
swap spaces mounted on two place, /var/run and /tmp?  Can someone tell me
when does /var/run get mounted? I dont have that entry in my /etc/vfstab.

thanx for the replies
Mark

original post:
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Hi, I have a urgent problem.  My tmp space is running out.  But it looks
like the server forgot to mount the correct swap slice.  How can I change
this without reboot?

thank you
Mark

here's the info:
df -k:
Filesystem            kbytes    used   avail capacity  Mounted on
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0     490097   79588  361500    19%    /
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s5    3579989  858488 2685702    25%    /usr
/proc                      0       0       0     0%    /proc
fd                         0       0       0     0%    /dev/fd
mnttab                     0       0       0     0%    /etc/mnttab
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s4     482824  295003  139539    68%    /var
swap                   16392       8   16384     1%    /var/run
swap                   16784     400   16384     3%    /tmp
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s6    3579989 2462175 1082015    70%    /opt


/etc/vfstab:
#device         device          mount           FS      fsck    mount
mount
#to mount       to fsck         point           type    pass    at boot
options
#
#/dev/dsk/c1d0s2 /dev/rdsk/c1d0s2 /usr          ufs     1       yes     -
fd      -       /dev/fd fd      -       no      -
/proc   -       /proc   proc    -       no      -
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s1       -       -       swap    -       no      -
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0       /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s0      /       ufs     1       no
-
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s5       /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s5      /usr    ufs     1       no
-
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s4       /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s4      /var    ufs     1       no
-
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s6       /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s6      /opt    ufs     2       yes
-
swap    -       /tmp    tmpfs   -       yes     -
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