From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jan 10 17:54:30 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from meow.osd.bsdi.com (meow.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.88]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F65C37B402 for ; Wed, 10 Jan 2001 17:54:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (john@jhb-laptop.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.241]) by meow.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.1/8.9.3) with ESMTP id f0B1s2197255; Wed, 10 Jan 2001 17:54:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <979173582.3a5d00ce0a0fb@Mail.MexComUSA.net> Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 17:54:16 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin To: Edwin Culp Subject: RE: /boot/kernel/kernel: swap_pager_getswapspace: failed Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 11-Jan-01 Edwin Culp wrote: > Thanks, John. I wish that it were that simple, that is if I am interpreting > pstat and vmstat correctly. It might be asking for more swap space than you have. I.e., it may need mroe than 256 meg of swap. :( > > /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 > -- -- 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/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message