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OSXS 10.2.6 runaway swapfiles
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Join Date: Nov 2000
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The past couple days I've experienced some major bloating of swapfiles on our Xserve running OS X Server 10.2.6
yesterday before rebooting it, there was about 66GB of swapfiles.
66GB!
i think that's like over 800 of them 80M swapfiles
as for tracking down what caused it, i'm still unsure.
closest I cam was noticing httpd sucking up more than it normally does. but couldn't see where 66GB came from (top said VM 4.5G + 5G or something around there)
and httpd had a couple processes doing about 1.5 to 2G in VSIZE i think
which is more than the usual 40M it seems to typically do
anybody know what might caused this? we were looking at a couple of our web scripts for some loops to make sure that wasn't causing it, other than that i'm not sure. 
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Join Date: Jan 2002
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I get the same problem on my 667 Tibook. It usually happens after running the adobe suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, etc.), but once I stop running those apps, the swapfiles sometimes continue to balloon to over 1.5GB worth, and this has only been happening since the upgrade to 10.2.6. Now I don't know if OS X has a method for effeciently recycling and managing VM, but something should definitely be implemented, or fixed, if it is somehow broken. Now, I find myself rebooting my machine anywhere from every three days to twice a day, only because of VM behavior.
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"Bill Gates can't guarantee Windows... how can you guarantee my safety?"
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Join Date: Apr 1999
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Originally posted by jerome9:
The past couple days I've experienced some major bloating of swapfiles on our Xserve running OS X Server 10.2.6
yesterday before rebooting it, there was about 66GB of swapfiles.
What are you running on it besides Apache?
How much RAM does it have?
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JLL
- My opinions may have changed, but not the fact that I am right.
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Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Cary, NC
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I had 8-10 swap files before I said the heck with it and rebooted. I was getting page-outs like crazy and performance was complete crap.
G4/800, 10.2.6, 512M physical RAM.
Mike
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Join Date: Oct 2000
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While your suspected app is running, you can enter 'leaks appname' from the Terminal command line. appname is case sensitive. I have found most Carbon applications have beaucoup memory leaks and that could be causing your problems.
HTH
Craig
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Xserve Dual 1Ghz i think
1GB or maybe 1.5GB of RAM
Apache, MySQL, Apple File Sharing, FTP, Samba, some PHP websites, a perl cgi website
that's about it for anything running on there besides system stuff i think, usually nothing at all is open locally on the server itself
usually not logged in
I had a co-worker run one of the websites on it on my laptop that i was skeptical of(possible causing loops and such) but no problem, my powerbook has been up 8 days no such swap problems even after running all sorts of stuff
-jerome
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