[rescue] swap slowly filling up on solaris 8 machines

[Brian Hechinger]

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

bingo!  thanks man!!  this is EXACTLY why i don't use tmpfs. :)

$ ls -l
total 2313408
-rw-rw-r--   1 root     sys         5056 Aug 22 09:22 ps_data
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root     1184448807 Nov 26 21:42 rewrite.log

> That sounds good. I find that "top" (from sunfreeware.com) gives me a
> better idea of what's doing what, in case that's not it.

top wasn't showing me anything, which is why i was so confused.  i saw that
swap was 3/4 full, but looking at top and ps outputs saw no more than 1/2 of
physical ram worth of stuff running.

mystery solved, i LOVE this list. :)

-brian