From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 4 19:23:36 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5A9037B401 for ; Tue, 4 Mar 2003 19:23:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from franky.speednet.com.au (franky.speednet.com.au [203.57.65.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C1C0143FE0 for ; Tue, 4 Mar 2003 19:23:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from andyf@speednet.com.au) Received: from hewey.af.speednet.com.au (hewey.af.speednet.com.au [203.38.96.242]) by franky.speednet.com.au (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h253N9dC053271; Wed, 5 Mar 2003 14:23:09 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from andyf@speednet.com.au) Received: from hewey.af.speednet.com.au (hewey.af.speednet.com.au [203.38.96.242]) by hewey.af.speednet.com.au (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h253N7On059182; Wed, 5 Mar 2003 13:23:08 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from andyf@speednet.com.au) Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2003 13:23:07 +1000 (EST) From: Andy Farkas X-X-Sender: andyf@hewey.af.speednet.com.au To: Mike Loiterman Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Make buildworld fails for 5.0 In-Reply-To: <00f301c2e2c4$23165a10$0301a8c0@mike> Message-ID: <20030305131215.U58375-100000@hewey.af.speednet.com.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. -- :{ andyf@speednet.com.au Andy Farkas System Administrator Speednet Communications http://www.speednet.com.au/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message