From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 26 1:54:22 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc1.tn.home.com (ha1.rdc1.tn.home.com [24.2.7.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47C9937B87D for ; Wed, 26 Jul 2000 01:54:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from williamsl@home.com) Received: from RELIABLE ([24.4.115.31]) by mail.rdc1.tn.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.00 201-229-116) with ESMTP id <20000726085417.PTCK25440.mail.rdc1.tn.home.com@RELIABLE> for ; Wed, 26 Jul 2000 01:54:17 -0700 Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 04:48:35 -0400 From: Ben Williams X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.39) Personal Organization: Williams Enterprises X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <8200.000726@home.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: troublesome log messages Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi all. I have an "old" FreeBSD (2.2.5-RELEASE) system that is pretty much "of a sudden" spitting out > pid 8532 (faxmail), uid 100: exited on signal 11 and less frequently > swap_pager: out of swap space in /var/log/messages. I've already read the "Signal 11 FAQ" and I know that the most likely cause there is bad memory. My biggest question is how can I find out what's running me out of swap space? Looking further back in dmesg history I also see: >swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: device: 131073, blkno: 204072, size: 12288 but I don't know what that means. Being the curious sort I 'man'd vmstat and a 'vmstat -s' showed me more that I don't fully understand the relevance of but > 28507083 copy-on-write faults > 2168 intransit blocking page faults > 70344615 total VM faults taken showed up in the output (along with lots of other stats) and those don't make me feel too happy. Will someone explain what's going on here and what I should be worried about? -- Ben Williams. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message