Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2005 14:57:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Jon Dama <jd@ugcs.caltech.edu> To: Charles Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, polachok@narod.ru Subject: Re: out of swap space Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.53.0507071453280.19319@spew.ugcs.caltech.edu> In-Reply-To: <5BFCCFD5-15C5-400D-8CA1-CF5E2802A3DD@mac.com> References: <42CD9728.000003.16936@colgate.yandex.ru> <5BFCCFD5-15C5-400D-8CA1-CF5E2802A3DD@mac.com>
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It is also it is worthwhile to remember that on i386 you can use roughly >20GB of swap space. swap + ram need not sum to less than 4GB common misunderstandings aside. If your memory load warrants larger swap allocations, you should just bump that number up. -Jon On Thu, 7 Jul 2005, Charles Swiger wrote: > On Jul 7, 2005, at 4:57 PM, Alexander Polakov wrote: > > swap_pager: out of swap space > > swap_pager_getswapspace(2): failed > > pid 508 (Xorg), uid 0, was killed: out of swap space > > pid 641 (fluxbox), uid 1001: exited on signal 6 (core dumped) > > Well, bad things happen if the system runs out of swap. Do you have > enough RAM and swap configured for the tasks you run? What does top > or "vmstat -s" look like? > > -- > -Chuck > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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