From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 1 14:13:47 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22C5516A4CE for ; Thu, 1 Jul 2004 14:13:47 +0000 (GMT) Received: from harrier.mail.pas.earthlink.net (harrier.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.12]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9DA8743D4C for ; Thu, 1 Jul 2004 14:13:46 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rpratt1950@earthlink.net) Received: from user167.net370.fl.sprint-hsd.net ([65.40.55.167] helo=kt.weeble.com) by harrier.mail.pas.earthlink.net with smtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 1Bg2JB-0001Ie-00 for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Thu, 01 Jul 2004 07:13:01 -0700 Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2004 10:15:06 -0400 From: Randy Pratt To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Message-Id: <20040701101506.58d3bbed.rpratt1950@earthlink.net> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.12 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.10) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: swap_pager_getswapspace: failed X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 01 Jul 2004 14:13:47 -0000 I had an odd thing happen yesterday that I've never seen. Here's the info from /var/log/messages: Jun 30 11:06:22 kt /kernel: swap_pager_getswapspace: failed Jun 30 11:06:23 kt last message repeated 26 times Jun 30 11:07:27 kt last message repeated 25 times Jun 30 11:12:23 kt last message repeated 44 times Jun 30 11:12:23 kt /kernel: pid 876 (opera), uid 1001, was killed: out of swap space Eventually things got worse. I tried to switch to another workspace and lost 4 out of 7 workspaces. The applications that were there were still running. After manually killing the processes, I rebooted and things returned to normal. I did see some discussion in the -current archives where it was thought it might be some XFree86 memory leak issues. A google search for "swap_pager_getswapspace failed 2004" turned up: http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&threadm=cak3qd%24kv3%241%40FreeBSD.csie.NCTU.edu.tw&rnum=3&prev=/groups%3Fhl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26q%3Dswap_pager_getswapspace%2Bfailed%2B2004%26btnG%3DSearch%26meta%3Dgroup%253Dmailing.freebsd.* >From uname -a: 4.10-STABLE FreeBSD 4.10-STABLE #0: Sat Jun 5 15:39:24 EDT 2004 >From dmesg: real memory = 536805376 (524224K bytes) avail memory = 516714496 (504604K bytes) >From swapinfo: Device 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Type /dev/ad0s1b 1032624 304 1032320 0% Interleaved I update ports daily so everything is at the latest versions available. If this happens again, what kind of information should I collect so that it might be of value? Best regards, Randy --