From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 13 8:56:46 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 13 08:56:45 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 911A637B400 for ; Wed, 13 Dec 2000 08:56:44 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 97823 invoked by uid 100); 13 Dec 2000 16:56:44 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14903.43596.210801.521405@guru.mired.org> Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 10:56:44 -0600 (CST) To: Network Administrator Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: swap problems In-Reply-To: <97019551@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 10) "Capitol Reef" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Network Administrator types: > At 1:46 PM -0800 12/12/00, Kent Stewart wrote: > > > Can someone tell me where to look for the problem that causes this failure: > > > > > > swap_pager: out of swap space > >It filled up your swap file system. While the price is right, I would > >up the memory. Then you wouldn't swap as much. SDRAM access times on > >that vintage will be 10-15ns. Accessing your HD will make it seem like > >the memory is 8-15ms. > Hmm. I wasn't specific enough. > The question is: WHY is the swap f/s continuing to get filled up? It > didn't used to. The primary use of the machine is mail server. If I > kill all processes not directly related to that (httpd, named, etc.), > then sendmail or pop3d will eventually cause the swap space to > overflow. And I don't know what to look for. Look for lots of pop3 or sendmail processes. The problem then becomes figuring out *why* they aren't going away. It may well be that your user base has grown or changed it's behavior in some way that's making an old server config inappropriate, or the system setup to small. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Unix/FreeBSD consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message