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Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2002 01:45:28 -0800
From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To: questions2@geektank.org
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Subject: Re: "swap_pager: out of swap space"??
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On Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 12:52:49AM -0800, questions2@geektank.org wrote:
> In my log files I got this message today:
>=20
> --------
> swap_pager: out of swap space
> swap_pager_getswapspace: failed
> --------
>=20
> Are these error msgs something to be worried about? FYI -- I have 256MB
> RAM and a 128MB Swap partition.

Like it says, your system is running out of memory in the course of
operations.  This is rarely a good thing.

Kris

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