From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 30 1: 5: 4 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ducky.nz.freebsd.org (chilled.unixathome.org [203.79.82.27]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C8F4A37B98A for ; Tue, 30 May 2000 01:05:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@langille.org) Received: from wocker (wocker.int.nz.freebsd.org [192.168.0.99]) by ducky.nz.freebsd.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA55514 for ; Tue, 30 May 2000 20:05:05 +1200 (NZST) From: "Dan Langille" Organization: langille.org To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 20:04:58 +1200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: re: swap_pager_getswapspace: failed Reply-To: dan@langille.org Message-ID: <39341EEA.4412.82EAF857@localhost> In-Reply-To: <200005161940.HAA42874@ducky.nz.freebsd.org> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12c) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > This morning a box of mine was frozen up solid. The following > messages were found in /var/log/messages: > > May 17 03:58:44 buff /kernel: swap_pager_getswapspace: failed > May 17 03:59:15 buff last message repeated 83 times > May 17 04:00:36 buff last message repeated 49 times > > The times correspond roughly to the time the box went down. > > Check through the daily swap levels, they seemed to hover about 65%, > which is they are now. > > $ uname -a > FreeBSD buff.int.unixathome.org 4.0-STABLE FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE > #0: Sat May 6 09:43:56 NZST 2000 > root@buff.unixathome.org:/usr/src/sys/compile/BUFF i386 > > This is the swap partition: > /dev/ad0s1a 49583 29090 16527 64% / > > The box has 32MB of RAM. > > Any clues? I'm not sure if I have the answer, but the above problem went away. I was having trouble with a webpage which was doing a search using php and mysql. It would time out before a page could be put back to the user. I removed the search. No more swap_pager_getswapspace errors and no more freeze ups. Does this make sense to anyone? -- Dan Langille [I'm looking for more work] The FreeBSD Diary - http://www.freebsddiary.org/ FreshPorts - http://freshports.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message