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Subject: Re: Something strange in a 4.2 FreeBSD Box
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On 14 Jan, Roberto Samarone Araujo (RSA) wrote:
>       Hi,
> 
>             Every week I need to reboot my FreeBSD 4.2 machine, I noticed
> that it only works for seven days. In a randomic hour in the seven day, it
> blocks. I really don't know what is happening but, I looked at logs and this
> message appeared :
> 
>                         Jan 13 18:06:23 soure /kernel:
> swap_pager_getswapspace: failed
> 
>             Does anyone know what is happening and How can I fix it ?
> 
It looks like you either ran out of swap space or
your Hard drive is failing around your swap space.
Or the controller or driver is being flake.

Could you post more information on your system?
Maybe someone else has some solid ideas.
Specifically use dmesg(8) and pstat(8).

				Jessem.





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