Swapping and wmgr

[Lenny Tropiano]

In article <449 at bacchus> darren at bacchus (Darren Friedlein) writes:
|>
|>I have a question that I'm hoping someone can answer... I run phdaemon on
|>my machine and when memory has to be swapped out to disk, phdaemon fails,
|>leaves me a message under the [!!] icon and I re-start it.  No big
|>problem.  The last two times, however, the [!!] icon flashed on and then
|>the whole status bar right of "DATA 2:" went to dots.  
...
Well I wrote phdaemon and never really had the ambition to stick the code
in it to open /dev/swap and locate the user's process block if it got
swapped out.  Unfortunately this is a very hard thing to *TEST*.  How
do you make something run out of swap space if you have enough allocated?

I suggest you (yes, reformat) and increase your default swap space.  Running
out of swap space isn't too good, it's a sign that your machine isn't
configured correctly for the amount of memory you have and how intensively
you use this memory.

-Lenny
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