From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 16 18:31:17 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 840AD16A4CE for ; Sat, 16 Apr 2005 18:31:17 +0000 (GMT) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (CPE0050040655c8-CM00111ae02aac.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com [69.194.102.111]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3088243D2F for ; Sat, 16 Apr 2005 18:31:17 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 53405519EF; Sat, 16 Apr 2005 11:31:16 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2005 11:31:16 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway To: nocturnal Message-ID: <20050416183116.GA60877@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <42610BBE.9020300@swehack.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="EeQfGwPcQSOJBaQU" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <42610BBE.9020300@swehack.se> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unexpected swap unmounts X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2005 18:31:17 -0000 --EeQfGwPcQSOJBaQU Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Apr 16, 2005 at 02:57:34PM +0200, nocturnal wrote: > Hi >=20 > I'm running a FreeBSD 4.11 system on my laptop, before that i had 4.10=20 > and it's always worked great, i can't think of any new major changes=20 > i've made or things i've done in the last months. Just recently it=20 > started unmounting my swap partition for some reason, i get no warning=20 > but i have started checking dmesg and see it happen. Only a reboot can=20 > fix it, i've tried doing swapon /dev/partition as listed in fstab but it= =20 > returns invalid argument. One warning signal which i can see if i=20 > continue using the laptop like usual for a while after the unmount is=20 > that firefox gets killed, or any other heavy application. Of course this= =20 > is a cause of not having any swap mounted and dmesg tells me that. > This is the message i get indicating that my swap partition is no longer= =20 > mounted. >=20 > swap_pager_getswapspace: failed This doesn't mean that it's no longer mounted, but that it's out of space. Have you checked with 'swapinfo'? It's much more likely that you're just running out of swap. Kris --EeQfGwPcQSOJBaQU Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCYVn0Wry0BWjoQKURAhtbAKDEJpeTqyOVOx9eDwSsgNmcz5SctQCfafO8 crNDbZ8z68mX0OStaMCBpug= =Se9F -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --EeQfGwPcQSOJBaQU--