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In article <2B336136.9214@news.service.uci.edu> rmyers@dec5200.acs.uci.edu  
(Richard Myers) writes:
> But my machine crashes 'for no appearant reason' about
> every 3 days, and sometime my swapfile grows to the size of my free space
> - 20 meg or so (that's a 520Meg swapfile).

It sounds like a daemon process is allocating memory that it is not freeing.   
I had a similar problem with npcomm, a program started by lpd for use with  
the NeXT printer.  It would sit there and allocate memory.  After a week, my  
swapfile filled and my system panicked.  Since I didn't have a NeXT printer,  
I removed the reference to npcomm from the printcap file (netinfo  
/printers/Local_Printer).  (I deleted the value for the "if" property.)  Once  
I rebooted, everything was fine.  This problem occurred under 2.0.  I don't  
know if it exists under 3.0 or 2.1.

Your problem my not be with npcomm, but I suggest that you do a "ps guax"  
shortly before a crash and look for a process that has allocated a huge  
amount of memory.  It's probably the culprit.

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