From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Dec 28 10:38:39 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from smtp-1.enteract.com (smtp-1.enteract.com [207.229.143.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12C1637B41C for ; Fri, 28 Dec 2001 10:38:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from jamestown.21stcentury.net (24-148-18-116.na.21stcentury.net [24.148.18.116]) by smtp-1.enteract.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 065D16602; Fri, 28 Dec 2001 12:38:35 -0600 (CST) Received: (from jtm@localhost) by jamestown.21stcentury.net (8.11.6/8.11.3) id fBSIbrr00715; Fri, 28 Dec 2001 12:37:53 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from jtm63@enteract.com) X-Authentication-Warning: jamestown.21stcentury.net: jtm set sender to jtm63@enteract.com using -f To: Matthew Dillon Cc: Thierry Thomas , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: swap_pager problem [was Re: 4.5 PRERELEASE - Call for testing] References: <20011221163036.G1015@windriver.com> <20011228002105.A5991@graf.pompo.net> <200112280606.fBS66ur91757@apollo.backplane.com> From: James McNaughton Date: 28 Dec 2001 12:37:52 -0600 In-Reply-To: <200112280606.fBS66ur91757@apollo.backplane.com> Message-ID: <868zbnb37j.fsf@jamestown.21stcentury.net> Lines: 38 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Matthew Dillon writes: > :I have upgraded this morning from 4.4-stable to 4.5-prerelease (cvsup at > :08:15 GMT). > : > :Everything was OK, until I get into a problem very similar to PR > :kern/30164: > : > :Dec 27 23:20:42 graf /kernel: sio0: 1 more silo overflow (total 284) > :Dec 27 23:23:48 graf /kernel: swap_pager: out of swap space > :Dec 27 23:23:48 graf /kernel: swap_pager_getswapspace: failed > :Dec 27 23:23:56 graf /kernel: pid 297 (XFree86), uid 0, was killed: out of swap space > : > :I was not running anything unusual (XFree4 + kde 2.2.2 with konqueror + > :3 rxvt + one make fetch + mutt + one gcc for a middle-sized program), > :and before 4.5-prerelease I had never met such a problem. > : > :For info: > :#>pstat -s (after reboot!) > > That's a fairly heavy-weight combination. Probably one of the > programs went on an infinite memory-allocation loop or something > like that. > I have experienced this with KDE 2.2.2. More than once. > One solution is to set a datasize limit in your .xinitrc or .xsession > (whichever one you use to start up KDE), for example set a 128m limit, > so the runaway program doesn't take the rest of the system down > with it. > > -Matt > Matthew Dillon > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message