From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 1 19:08:58 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 9C54D16A4CE for ; Thu, 1 Jul 2004 19:08:58 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ylpvm15.prodigy.net (ylpvm15-ext.prodigy.net [207.115.57.46]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B7BD43D55 for ; Thu, 1 Jul 2004 19:08:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-63-207-60-35.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [63.207.60.35])i61Ie0P6029582; Thu, 1 Jul 2004 14:40:00 -0400 Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id EB22E52364; Thu, 1 Jul 2004 11:39:49 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2004 11:39:49 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway To: Randy Pratt Message-ID: <20040701183949.GA30537@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20040701101506.58d3bbed.rpratt1950@earthlink.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="n8g4imXOkfNTN/H1" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040701101506.58d3bbed.rpratt1950@earthlink.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 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 19:08:58 -0000 --n8g4imXOkfNTN/H1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 10:15:06AM -0400, Randy Pratt wrote: > I had an odd thing happen yesterday that I've never seen. Here's the > info from /var/log/messages: >=20 > 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 >=20 > 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=20 > processes, I rebooted and things returned to normal. > If this happens again, what kind of information should I collect > so that it might be of value? Use top or ps to find out what process is using all the swap. Kris --n8g4imXOkfNTN/H1 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFA5Fp1Wry0BWjoQKURAo2eAJ9oWsyKyuwwZRImoMJArO+y1Smr9ACgy8AS vn1p3sP/xFJrFlvnY4Mowss= =p+vv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --n8g4imXOkfNTN/H1--