From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 8 06:30:45 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B27237B401 for ; Tue, 8 Apr 2003 06:30:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from meryl.it.uu.se (meryl.it.uu.se [130.238.12.42]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD57C43F93 for ; Tue, 8 Apr 2003 06:30:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ribo6611@student.uu.se) Received: from trana.it.uu.se (daemon@trana.it.uu.se [130.238.9.155]) by meryl.it.uu.se (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA07507 for ; Tue, 8 Apr 2003 15:30:42 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from localhost (ribo6611@localhost) by trana.it.uu.se (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h38DUfoo001789 for ; Tue, 8 Apr 2003 15:30:41 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: trana.it.uu.se: ribo6611 owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2003 15:30:41 +0200 (MET DST) From: Borgmaster X-X-Sender: ribo6611@trana.it.uu.se To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Subject: Why has my swap pager gone nuts? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2003 13:30:45 -0000 Hi, Recently upgraded from 4.7-STABLE to 4.8. System seemed to work fine for a day or two, until I decided to portupgrade mozilla. Since then I am not able to compile anything without swap pager running out of swap space and many processes gets killed. When I try this, X is disabled but some daemons are running, such as Samba, ntpd, linux emulation, etc. Top reports ~430Mb free. I have 512Mb RAM in the machine and 256Mb swap partition. I know that one is supposed to have twice swap as physical RAM, but is that really necessary on my single user workstation? 1.5G of total memory is twice the memory I have in some other servers... The computer has been working just fine for a year or so, even with tons of applications loaded under X. I suspect something has happened in the process of upgrading 4.7->4.8. I've built and installed everything in single-user mode. Could it be some daemon that eats all the memory? As I wrote it, I though of a possible source, the linux stuff that loads with linux emulation and vmware. Are they known to be a problem when upgrading kernel and userland? Any tips appreciated. Best regards, Rickard Borgm=E4ster