From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 7 21:57:04 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE3CD16A41C for ; Thu, 7 Jul 2005 21:57:04 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jd@ugcs.caltech.edu) Received: from spew.ugcs.caltech.edu (spew.ugcs.caltech.edu [131.215.176.102]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 701F443D55 for ; Thu, 7 Jul 2005 21:57:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jd@ugcs.caltech.edu) Received: by spew.ugcs.caltech.edu (Postfix, from userid 3640) id AEBADE816; Thu, 7 Jul 2005 14:57:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by spew.ugcs.caltech.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90672E815; Thu, 7 Jul 2005 14:57:01 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2005 14:57:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Jon Dama To: Charles Swiger In-Reply-To: <5BFCCFD5-15C5-400D-8CA1-CF5E2802A3DD@mac.com> Message-ID: References: <42CD9728.000003.16936@colgate.yandex.ru> <5BFCCFD5-15C5-400D-8CA1-CF5E2802A3DD@mac.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, polachok@narod.ru Subject: Re: out of swap space X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2005 21:57:04 -0000 It is also it is worthwhile to remember that on i386 you can use roughly >20GB of swap space. swap + ram need not sum to less than 4GB common misunderstandings aside. If your memory load warrants larger swap allocations, you should just bump that number up. -Jon On Thu, 7 Jul 2005, Charles Swiger wrote: > On Jul 7, 2005, at 4:57 PM, Alexander Polakov wrote: > > swap_pager: out of swap space > > swap_pager_getswapspace(2): failed > > pid 508 (Xorg), uid 0, was killed: out of swap space > > pid 641 (fluxbox), uid 1001: exited on signal 6 (core dumped) > > Well, bad things happen if the system runs out of swap. Do you have > enough RAM and swap configured for the tasks you run? What does top > or "vmstat -s" look like? > > -- > -Chuck > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >