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Subject:    OES1 used swap space growing, does not return.
From:       "joea () j4computers ! com" <joea () j4computers ! com>
Date:       2009-05-01 17:56:51
Message-ID: 49FAFF9B020000850005FC28 () FS-LIN-OES
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GW7.0.3 hp2. OES1 Linux. 2 node cluster. 3-5 POA's per server. 

Swap space in use is increasing dramatically on certain servers after having been \
stable for a long time. 

The only change was to increase the frequency of Quickfinder indexing. Changed from \
once a day, to once every 4 hours. Staggered the start times, on any given box, so \
the jobs did not overlap each other, based on the maximum time QF was observed to \
run, looking at POA logs. This did not seem too insane, based on reading various \
blurbs. 

Seems each job only runs a few minutes. Yet seems QF is eating a lot of memory, \
causing swap to increase, and it never seems to come back to any great degree.

I have adjusted the start and interval, run only twice a day, yet the swap space in \
use continues to  grow,  causing some concern. I have added swap files, with same \
priorty as existing.  Swap part and orginal swap are now almost "full" after having \
dropped immediately after adding swap and added swap is beginning to be used.  
What can I look for?

joe a.

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