From owner-freebsd-stable Fri May 1 13:30:38 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA16018 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Fri, 1 May 1998 13:30:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from NIH2WAAE (smtp5.site1.csi.com [149.174.183.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA15804 for ; Fri, 1 May 1998 13:30:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from berend@pobox.com) Received: from mail pickup service by csi.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Fri, 1 May 1998 16:29:22 -0400 Received: from auke.deboer (pd06-184.par.compuserve.com [195.232.70.184]) by hil-img-ims-4.compuserve.com (8.8.6/8.8.6/IMS-1.2) with ESMTP id QAA05480 for ; Fri, 1 May 1998 16:29:07 -0400 (EDT) Received: from bmach (bmach.deboer [192.168.33.3]) by auke.deboer (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id WAA00266 for ; Fri, 1 May 1998 22:22:24 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from berend@pobox.com) Received: by localhost with Microsoft MAPI; Fri, 1 May 1998 22:22:29 +0200 Message-ID: <01BD754F.A0AB9EF0.berend@pobox.com> From: Berend de Boer To: "'FreeBSD stable'" Subject: swap_pager: out of swap space, only power off did help Date: Fri, 1 May 1998 22:22:28 +0200 Organization: NederWare X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet E-mail/MAPI - 8.0.0.4211 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Hello All, My quite stable freebsd stable halted today with "swap_pager: out of swap space". Only a reboot did help. But within minutes this message came again. Help! I'm running stable from a few weeks ago. 1. What has happened? As far as I know someone send me a large (3MB) message, which sendmail spooled to /var/spool/mqueue (at least there I found it) and procmail tried to deliver it, without luck however. But /var/mail still did have 15MB free, so what could be wrong? This is a 16MB machine with a 40MB swap space. I finally fixed it be adding some 40MB more swap space, but just 40MB swap space for adding a 3MB msg seems a bit of overkill. With 80MB swap space it took a total of 60MB of swap space for procmail to deliver this. 2. How can I prevent this? The most important question of course. FreeBSD should not hang in such a case, but be ale to continue somehow, maybe by killing the offender. It's very easy to kill a FreeBSD machine in this respect. Just send it a 10MB msg and oops, the machine goes down. Any help/pointers appreciated. Groetjes, Berend. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message