11-17-2011
You might be in a zone with virtual memory capping.
In any case, use "swap -s" to display your swap (a.k.a. virtual memory) usage. /tmp being reported as full is, when /tmp is mounted using tmpfs, just a side effect of memory exhaustion.
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