Summary: I was not using the proper tool for monitoring swap. The df command does not provide a reliable method for viewing the status of used swap space. I will be keeping an eye on this server for it to happen again. When it does, I will be looking closely at the swap -s, swap -l, and vmstat command results. I will also be watching the output from top. Thanks for the excellent help! Marc B. *********************************************** Original Post *********************************************** Managers, I have a web server that looses swap space without warning. Is this a patching issue? Or could it be worse? Sun V100 550MHz CPU 512MB RAM Solaris 8 Generic_108528-19 Apache 1.3.27 with SSL Results of df -k during the problem: swap 748504 24 748480 1% /var/run Results of df -k immediately after reboot: swap 4581496 24 4581472 1% /var/run # grep swap /etc/vfstab /dev/dsk/c0t2d0s3 - - swap - no - swap - /tmp tmpfs - yes - TIA, Marc B. _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Wed Jul 14 14:47:23 2004
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