From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon May 6 15:13:52 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A25B37B406 for ; Mon, 6 May 2002 15:13:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: by elvis.mu.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id CC126AE163; Mon, 6 May 2002 15:13:46 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 6 May 2002 15:13:46 -0700 From: Paul Saab To: Terry Lambert Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: swap_pager_getswapspace: failed Message-ID: <20020506221346.GA268@elvis.mu.org> References: <20020506111950.T50903-100000@fw.cgn.icom> <3CD6B7E1.F1616DDE@mindspring.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3CD6B7E1.F1616DDE@mindspring.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Terry Lambert (tlambert2@mindspring.com) wrote: > Bogdan TARU wrote: > > (1 zillion x) swap_pager_getswapspace: failed > > > > Could you tell me why I do get this? We're talking about a very idle > > machine, used only for development (CVS + postgresql + about 16 httpd > > apaches -- MaxClients). RAM: 512, Swap 512. I've never seen more than 12MB > > of swap in use. And, more puzzling: why do I get this in sysctl, and not > > in a log? > > See /var/log/messages and/or "dmesg" and/or look at your console. > > The reason you get these messages is that you are out of kernel > virtual address space to provide mappings for swap. > > 512M + 512M = 1G... how big is your KVA? What are you smoking? The machine is out of swap space, not KVA. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message