swapspace

[Colin Law]

On 18 October 2014 16:54, Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:
> ...
> OTOH, okular took me down yesterday, while trying to read thru a 42
> megabyte, 650 page pdf, the USB2.0 stds document.  No clue if it was into
> swap at the time & no way to acess an htop as it was bash & everything it
> started that all died in one swell foop.

You can usually tell if swap is being used intensively, causing the
machine to clog up, as the disc will be thrashing away continuously.

Colin