From owner-freebsd-stable Sat May 2 02:57:00 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA28354 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Sat, 2 May 1998 02:57:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from david.siemens.de (david.siemens.de [192.35.17.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA28340 for ; Sat, 2 May 1998 02:56:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de) Received: from salomon.mchp.siemens.de (salomon.siemens.de [139.23.33.13]) by david.siemens.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA24034 for ; Sat, 2 May 1998 11:56:31 +0200 (MDT) X-Envelope-Sender-Is: andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de (at relayer david.siemens.de) Received: from curry.mchp.siemens.de (daemon@curry.mchp.siemens.de [146.180.31.23]) by salomon.mchp.siemens.de (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA18235 for ; Sat, 2 May 1998 11:56:31 +0200 (MDT) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by curry.mchp.siemens.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA17435 for ; Sat, 2 May 1998 11:56:31 +0200 (CEST) From: Andre Albsmeier Message-Id: <199805020956.LAA15412@internal> Subject: Re: swap_pager: out of swap space, only power off did help In-Reply-To: <19980502004341.14009@rmta.ml.org> from "Scott A. Kenney" at "May 2, 98 00:43:41 am" To: saken@rmta.ml.org (Scott A. Kenney) Date: Sat, 2 May 1998 11:56:25 +0200 (CEST) Cc: berend@pobox.com, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > According to Berend de Boer: > > > 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. > > This is a well known problem with procmail on FreeBSD. > The attached message contains a patch for procmail which solves the > problem. Since I now know a couple of people being happy with procmail and huge messages, maybe we should include my patch in the procmail port. I think, the best would be somwhere in a README-2.2 file or as a note being echoed during the make process. Or, if we are keen, we could put it into the patches directory... -Andre To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message