Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2003 13:23:07 +1000 (EST) From: Andy Farkas <andyf@speednet.com.au> To: Mike Loiterman <mike@ascendency.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Make buildworld fails for 5.0 Message-ID: <20030305131215.U58375-100000@hewey.af.speednet.com.au> In-Reply-To: <00f301c2e2c4$23165a10$0301a8c0@mike>
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On Tue, 4 Mar 2003, Mike Loiterman wrote:
> [21:02:07 root@little_boy: /usr/src]# swapinfo
> Device 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Type
> /dev/ad2s1b 78008 51536 26472 66% Interleaved
>
> I don't know what to make of either of these commands.
>
> Which logs should I be looking at? Here is `tail' of /var/log/messages:
>
> Mar 3 18:14:50 little_boy kernel: swap_pager: out of swap space
> Mar 3 18:14:50 little_boy kernel: swap_pager_getswapspace: failed
> Mar 3 18:14:50 little_boy kernel: pid 40733 (genattrtab), uid 0, was killed: out of swap space
> Mar 3 20:09:38 little_boy kernel: swap_pager: out of swap space
> Mar 3 20:09:55 little_boy kernel: swap_pager_getswapspace: failed
> Mar 3 20:09:55 little_boy kernel: pid 58759 (genattrtab), uid 0, was killed: out of swap space
>
> Which seems that I am out of space, but I'm not sure why that is
> happening. My machine is old and slow, but I never had problems
> compiling 4.x?
Yup, you are out of swap space.
Fix: add more RAM or swap space.
As to why this is happening.....probably because you have to many
processes running. Do 'ps aux' and check the %MEM column for memory pigs..
Workaround: drop to single-user mode and try buildworld again.
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Andy Farkas
System Administrator
Speednet Communications
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