From owner-freebsd-security Sun Jan 14 8:50:19 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from mailhub.unibe.ch (mailhub.unibe.ch [130.92.254.109]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D32437B401 for ; Sun, 14 Jan 2001 08:50:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from CONVERSION-DAEMON by mailhub.unibe.ch (PMDF V5.2-32 #42480) id <0G7500701VWKV1@mailhub.unibe.ch> for freebsd-security@freebsd.org; Sun, 14 Jan 2001 17:45:57 +0100 (MET) Received: from iamexwi.unibe.ch (haegar.unibe.ch [130.92.71.10]) by mailhub.unibe.ch (PMDF V5.2-32 #42480) with ESMTP id <0G750073PVWK9O@mailhub.unibe.ch> for freebsd-security@freebsd.org; Sun, 14 Jan 2001 17:45:56 +0100 (MET) Received: from arp.unibe.ch (arp [130.92.62.25]) by iamexwi.unibe.ch (8.8.8+Sun/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA27965 for ; Sun, 14 Jan 2001 17:50:27 +0100 (MET) Received: (from roth@localhost) by arp.unibe.ch (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.1) id RAA07694 for freebsd-security@freebsd.org; Sun, 14 Jan 2001 17:50:23 +0100 (MET) Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 17:50:23 +0100 From: Tobias Roth Subject: Re: Something strange in a 4.2 FreeBSD Box In-reply-to: <200101141538.HAA01453@spammie.svbug.com>; from opentrax@email.com on Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 07:38:46AM -0800 To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Message-id: <20010114175023.A7680@arp.unibe.ch> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-disposition: inline Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i References: <00f001c07e28$5cc6d4e0$95fdf2c8@nirvana> <200101141538.HAA01453@spammie.svbug.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > On 14 Jan, Roberto Samarone Araujo (RSA) wrote: > > > > 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). Could you please NOT post more information on your system? In case you haven't noticed, this is freebsd-security and not freebsd-questions. Thank you for not asking or answering questions that are not related to security. greets, Tobe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message