Linux

Hi,

I am facing a weird problem in one ofmy linux boxes.

top & ps -ef commands hang on the server.

swap is not at all being used on the server.

Below are the details of swap:

# swapon -s
Filename Type Size Used Priority
/dev/cciss/c0d0p2 partition 8392552 0 -5
/dev/mapper/vg01-extraswap partition 4194296 0 -6
/swapfile file 131064 0 -7


free -m
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 7978 7305 673 0 312 6300
-/+ buffers/cache: 691 7287
Swap: 12419 0 12419



Plaese suggest any solutions.

Regards.

Define "hang". Do they refuse to start or update properly?
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From the output of free I see that you have about 12G of swap space activated, of which nothing is used.

Out of your circa 8 GB of main memory, 7.1 GB are used. About 6.2 GB of those 7.1 GB are non-swapping cached data, eg. files that are kept in memory for faster access and that will be free'd as soon as needed. That means that your applications and daemons need about 1.6 GB, or 21% of your main memory. Hardly a size where swapping would take place.

hello dear
if u got some disk space in your macine create a partition and format that partition with swap file system
after formatting with swap file system. enable the swap filesystem by executieng a command
#swapon < device name >
ex # swapon /dev/hda9
to check it whtr it is enable or not
#swapon -s