From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 27 21:39:52 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D53879BC for ; Mon, 27 Oct 2014 21:39:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-pd0-x233.google.com (mail-pd0-x233.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400e:c02::233]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id AD9618AC for ; Mon, 27 Oct 2014 21:39:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-pd0-f179.google.com with SMTP id g10so6419645pdj.38 for ; Mon, 27 Oct 2014 14:39:52 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=/hzcZ1Ny8GwbNPOQNBHcWGsFLuLKFoWY55TlxQKdTOo=; b=kFK9Bs5wcfpQ+OD+65+q2tyjhRj+/bQhZITAVtiqztRoU69T54C4q64AuNsbbwsZ5J udrTqqJWlRxj2WtPcmjKvRUOUfGRjRxSov679V7044Stl7LPhIJXscSgBG689CVGfhVC aUF1uVwSVFYroNEHlRBrVVVIZBRIVuVryb9IFL2HMBl9OPnKnhFIW9DMubNseqfk/iQW gj7Z9mSsMt510oOO2vnY90pHHWLefe8mFqwoySAvUP69jCuPEI4QTp30WbTQMCXoly4I rc3U6M1Ax4HC7SAwWCVPwRaSWC94EIQdznK87ISCzQz4R2qq0MpuUKwybGTjFCrRXdBx cjUg== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.68.112.193 with SMTP id is1mr26977990pbb.35.1414445992211; Mon, 27 Oct 2014 14:39:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.70.103.141 with HTTP; Mon, 27 Oct 2014 14:39:52 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <0fdf2022075b7a33f0abde4edd7c12a1@paz.bz> References: <0fdf2022075b7a33f0abde4edd7c12a1@paz.bz> Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2014 16:39:52 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: Re: out of swap space From: Adam Vande More To: Jim Pazarena Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.18-1 Cc: Freebsd Questions X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2014 21:39:53 -0000 On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 2:57 PM, Jim Pazarena wrote: > There is a lot of historical chatter about the amount of swap space > required. > But for my question, I haven't seen discussion: > What HAPPENS when the system flags "out of swap space". > Does a process die? or does the system merely become very sluggish? > Both, a process is killed and whenever you're starting to use swap space you should expect the system to become sluggish. > I have dozens of "out of swap space" messages, but I cannot find any dead > and/or failed jobs. > /var/log/messages should be listing exactly what was killed and when. It's probably on the console too. -- Adam