From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Aug 20 21:57:28 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA04768 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Thu, 20 Aug 1998 21:57:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from aniwa.sky (aniwa.actrix.gen.nz [203.96.56.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA04720 for ; Thu, 20 Aug 1998 21:57:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andrew@squiz.co.nz) Received: from localhost (andrew@localhost) by aniwa.sky (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id QAA02304; Fri, 21 Aug 1998 16:56:29 +1200 (NZST) (envelope-from andrew@squiz.co.nz) Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1998 16:56:29 +1200 (NZST) From: Andrew McNaughton X-Sender: andrew@aniwa.sky Reply-To: andrew@squiz.co.nz To: Suresh Rajagopalan cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: swap_pager:out of swap space In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 20 Aug 1998, Suresh Rajagopalan wrote: > Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 20:49:42 -0700 (PDT) > From: Suresh Rajagopalan > To: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: swap_pager:out of swap space > > On our PPro box, 64Mb RAM & 150Mb swap, we are seeing this message come > up frequently. The machine gets totally locked up. We are running 2.2.5 > and Apache 1.3.1. > > It has been stable for several months but the last couple of days there > has been a spike in web traffic. Is it a RAM or a swap problem? The message sounds pretty unambiguous. Your machine is running out of swap space. Either 1. Increase your physical ram 2. Increase the size of your swap space 3. limit the resources your system uses. Have a look at 'man limits' for the latter. Be aware though that CGI processes will start failing also. Apache can place limits on the number of httpd processes it will run, but extra users will come up with error messages. Andrew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message