From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 12 13:46:50 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 12 13:46:48 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from 2711.dynacom.net (2711.dynacom.net [206.107.213.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5865237B400 for ; Tue, 12 Dec 2000 13:46:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from urx.com (dsl1-160.dynacom.net [206.159.132.160]) by 2711.dynacom.net (Build 101 8.9.3/NT-8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA00352; Tue, 12 Dec 2000 13:46:47 -0800 Message-ID: <3A369CC6.41FE334A@urx.com> Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 13:46:46 -0800 From: Kent Stewart Reply-To: kstewart@urx.com Organization: Dynacom X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Network Administrator Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: swap problems References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Network Administrator wrote: > > While I continue searching for that elusive consultant, let me ask a > bit more specifically: > > Can someone tell me where to look for the problem that causes this failure: > > swap_pager: out of swap space It filled up your swap file system. While the price is right, I would up the memory. Then you wouldn't swap as much. SDRAM access times on that vintage will be 10-15ns. Accessing your HD will make it seem like the memory is 8-15ms. > > This machine has been running (happily, I thought) for well over a > year. It crashed with an unknown filesystem error last Friday and > hasn't been right since. Did you boot into single user mode and fsck your file systems? It would act strange until you do. Kent > > The machine is a Pentium II/300 MHz, 96 MB of RAM, and its swap > partition is 201 MB. None of the filesystems are at greater than ~50% > capacity. > > The version is: 2.2.7-RELEASE > > Ideas? TIA. > > -Bob > > [ ] [ ] > | { } ( ) | [ ] Robert L. Missbach > | | | ____ L _ _ | gbntech@gbn.com > L _ _| _ _ _|_ _|XX|_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ > | | | |__|_ _ _ _ > | [ ] | | | Global Business Network > | [ ] ( ) | [ ] IT Network Administrator > [ ] { }_ _ _ _ _|_ _| > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com http://kstewart.urx.com/kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message