Date: 28 Dec 2001 12:37:52 -0600 From: James McNaughton <jtm63@enteract.com> To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> Cc: Thierry Thomas <thierry@thomas.as>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: swap_pager problem [was Re: 4.5 PRERELEASE - Call for testing] Message-ID: <868zbnb37j.fsf@jamestown.21stcentury.net> In-Reply-To: <200112280606.fBS66ur91757@apollo.backplane.com> References: <20011221163036.G1015@windriver.com> <20011228002105.A5991@graf.pompo.net> <200112280606.fBS66ur91757@apollo.backplane.com>
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Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> 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 > <dillon@backplane.com> > > 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
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