From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jan 10 16:44:35 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from dsl.MexComUSA.net (adsl-63-200-120-86.dsl.mtry01.pacbell.net [63.200.120.86]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA92137B400; Wed, 10 Jan 2001 16:44:16 -0800 (PST) Received: (from root@localhost) by dsl.MexComUSA.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f0B0dgN66049; Wed, 10 Jan 2001 16:39:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from eculp@EnContacto.Net) Received: from 63.200.120.86 ( [63.200.120.86]) as user eculp@EnContacto.Net by Mail.MexComUSA.net with HTTP; Wed, 10 Jan 2001 16:39:42 -0800 Message-ID: <979173582.3a5d00ce0a0fb@Mail.MexComUSA.net> Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 16:39:42 -0800 From: Edwin Culp To: John Baldwin Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: RE: /boot/kernel/kernel: swap_pager_getswapspace: failed References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) 2.3.6-cvs Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thanks, John. I wish that it were that simple, that is if I am interpreting pstat and vmstat correctly. /root # pstat -s Device 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Type /dev/rad0s2b 262016 0 262016 0% Interleaved I have two another disks that aren't being used with an additional 512M of swap each that are not being mounted because this machine isn't carrying much load right now. /root # vmstat procs memory page disks faults cpu r b w avm fre flt re pi po fr sr ad0 ad2 in sy cs us sy id 0 2 0 118972 15100 849 0 1 0 834 4 0 0 414 3136 599 33 8 59 It really seems to be related to my upgrading to XFree86-4.0.2_3 and KDE-2. If no one else is seeing it, it isn't critical and with patience it'll show itself with a little time. Thanks, ed Quoting John Baldwin : > > On 10-Jan-01 Edwin Culp wrote: > > I am starting to get the following error. I've never seen it before and > > don't > > really understand why it should fail. Where should I start looking for > the > > problem? > > > > /boot/kernel/kernel: swap_pager_getswapspace: failed > > > > This seems to have started in the last week. > > > > Thanks, > > You are running out of swap space. Run fewer programs, buy more memory, > add > more swap space, or a combo of the three. > > -- > > John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ > PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc > "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ > -- EnContacto.Net - InternetSalon.Org - CafeMania.Net -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message