SUMMARY: how much swap does CDE consume?

From: Marc S. Gibian (gibian@stars1.hanscom.af.mil)
Date: Tue Oct 07 1997 - 13:34:25 CDT


I asked about the amount of swap space a typical CDE execution normal consumes.
The answers, very limited in number, were:

1. Upgrade to CDE 1.0.2 and the latest patches -- can't do it, though I will in
concert with upgrading to Solaris 2.6 in the future.

2. roughly 50M. -- this does not account for the swap space problems on my
developer systems, so apparently I have something else going wrong and need to
further investigate the problem.

My thanks to:

Richard Skelton <rich@brake.demon.co.uk>
Dan Pritts <danno@aa.fv.com>

Marc

Marc S. Gibian
COMSYS Information Technology Services phone: (617) 377-6350
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I recently started running out of swap space on a regular basis on my
workstation. This after running it for at least a year in its current
configuration with no problems. I've examined things and it appears that the
vast majority of my swap is being consumed by CDE (> 150M of the somewhat more
than 200M configured). Everything else uses quite a small amount of swap, but
every now and then the non-CDE processes exceed the 50-60M available due to
CDE's appetite.

How much swap space do you typically see CDE consuming on developer
workstations?

The machines in question are primarily SPARCstation 20/10 workstations running
Solaris 2.5 and CDE 1.0.1.

TIA,
Marc

Marc S. Gibian
COMSYS Information Technology Services phone: (617) 377-6350
PRISM/TFS email: gibian@stars1.hanscom.af.mil
                           or is it: gibian@hanscom.af.mil
                        well, maybe: gibianm@hanscom.af.mil
              and if all else fails: marc.gibian@acm.org



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