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From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
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Subject: Re: getswapspacefailed <-- OUCH ! Help?
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keith@smmc.qld.edu.au wrote:
> Hi all, I have a mail server which I setup (4.7) late last year.
> iT often starts to crap out with getswapspace failed errors.
> a) How can I check how much swapspace I had allocated.

top will do, or swapinfo.

> b) How can I check if the drive has a bad block on the swap slice

dd if=_swap_device of=/dev/null bs=5120

> c) How can I fix the problem

You need to identify what the problem is, first.  Then resolve it.  :-)  How 
much RAM and swap space does the machine have?  Are you simply putting enough 
load on it to exceed the available resources?

-Chuck