[rescue] swap slowly filling up on solaris 8 machines

[David Passmore]

On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 06:46:33PM -0500, Brian Hechinger wrote:
> i've been pointed at two boxes at work that have raised some concern among some
> people here.  these machines are not doing a huge amount of work, nor are they
> running a lot of different things, but they are consuming a tremendous amount
> of swap.  is there a way to dig through the swap and see what's been placed
> there?  has anyone else seen this?  i can't explain it, it seems very odd to me.
> i don't see anything that should be consuming all this space.

If you're using tmpfs, look at files in /tmp as the likely culprit.

David