From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 3 18:52:12 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA73F16A420 for ; Fri, 3 Mar 2006 18:52:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from peterjeremy@optushome.com.au) Received: from mail28.syd.optusnet.com.au (mail28.syd.optusnet.com.au [211.29.133.169]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0589343D48 for ; Fri, 3 Mar 2006 18:52:11 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from peterjeremy@optushome.com.au) Received: from turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org (c220-239-19-236.belrs4.nsw.optusnet.com.au [220.239.19.236]) by mail28.syd.optusnet.com.au (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k23IpxJb013013 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO); Sat, 4 Mar 2006 05:52:01 +1100 Received: from turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org (localhost.vk2pj.dyndns.org [127.0.0.1]) by turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k23IpwCA003028; Sat, 4 Mar 2006 05:51:59 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from peter@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org) Received: (from peter@localhost) by turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org (8.13.4/8.13.4/Submit) id k23IpvHN003027; Sat, 4 Mar 2006 05:51:57 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from peter) Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2006 05:51:57 +1100 From: Peter Jeremy To: Dmitry Pryanishnikov Message-ID: <20060303185157.GB692@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> References: <20060302181625.I3905@atlantis.atlantis.dp.ua> <76FAD2DB-CD18-42D4-95C8-F016CFB17B00@segpub.com.au> <20060303110936.R86586@atlantis.atlantis.dp.ua> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060303110936.R86586@atlantis.atlantis.dp.ua> X-PGP-Key: http://members.optusnet.com.au/peterjeremy/pubkey.asc User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RELENG_4 on flash disk and swap X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2006 18:52:12 -0000 On Fri, 2006-Mar-03 11:16:00 +0200, Dmitry Pryanishnikov wrote: > I'm running some heavy tests on my machine (256Mb RAM, HDD, no swap, >4.11-RELEASE) such as "make buildwolrd". After successful completion of >this procedure I issued "rm -rf /usr/obj/usr" and got the following >(single) message from kernel: > >Mar 3 11:05:32 test3 /kernel: swap_pager_getswapspace: failed > >Does anybody know whether it's harmless? It depends what you mean by "harmless". The kernel tried to allocate swap space for a process and failed. The kernel tries to recover by killing the largest process (which should also be syslog'd). I'm surprised that you got this on the "rm" as the buildworld should create bigger processes. If the "rm" was killed, you will need to re-issue it to actually delete the files. -- Peter Jeremy