On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 12:21 -0600, John Degenstein wrote: > Alright, to begin here are my system specs: > Athlon 64 3200+ > 512 MB PC2100 DDR > 200 GB SATA > 160 GB IDE > Nvidia GF4 4000 (128MB) > > This is a problem I have been trying to fix for several months now, > and I am pretty sure it is the swap space on this computer has > something to do with it. When I first start up the computer it is > blazing fast, and I have no problem filling 4 workspaces up with > resource intensive programs. But as the days and weeks wear on the > computer gets progressively slower, to the point where simply > switching between workspaces with only 3 or 4 programs open becomes > incredibly slow. The problem also seems to relate to programs that > use Java, such as azureus and qnext, it seems to me that there is some > kind of memory leak that builds up in the swap space over time. Even > after the swap space has been filled I attempt to clear it by closing > all open programs, but this has no effect and it is beginning to drive > me crazy. > > I did manage to find a command which I somehow got to work at least > several times: > swapoff -a /dev/logVol00/_something_here > > This command alleviated my problems immediately, but then I started to > get errors about running out of memory from new programs I was trying > to open so I enabled swap again with the command "swapon". Another > possible source of my problems is the fact I am running PC2100 DDR > rather than the minimum that my motherboard supposedly supports, > PC2700, because of this I had to underclock some of the components on > my mobo so that the computer would boot. > > So I guess my main question is: is the swap space in Linux messed up, > or is it simply a problem from Java??? > > Thanks in advance, > John Degenstein > John, What does top tell you about the swap and memory use. vmstat might give some insight as well. I would suspect that some application has a memory leak. Bob...