From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 11 23:34:15 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C42C16A417 for ; Sun, 11 Nov 2007 23:34:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from karu.pruun@googlemail.com) Received: from el-out-1112.google.com (el-out-1112.google.com [209.85.162.178]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3E9213C48E for ; Sun, 11 Nov 2007 23:34:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from karu.pruun@googlemail.com) Received: by el-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id s27so251173ele for ; Sun, 11 Nov 2007 15:33:59 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=AFJzmRmxCighX9L1+WHS9xo5Jr9dmp5+8APPDtI4bzQ=; b=gnW15pGWNtTtxVd9I45Vy2tzYs7LooDXoSCuAdG6TaWAWhE0jeoIXowwHNjB3/SvDGcUdAPnbAdLa3vVnpgvRmnyYapCjKuKIKDtoCa4niEQ9Du1nlIhhmLXFW001qzheVOgppNy9pFk59EoturAUtuBH9JP0c/eSB7+k6RkCEk= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=k6Ddq0dMvy7iAo4uH0w3JaT70BIcsUZAHYTJnqnvDcWOq42K2Yf0WKA9f9koaknRM+moLaXJfSLLlExfEZuZvVNujtXezGyMvr2aS6ewdesUyzMDNuVvQHitZ+M4T2y+RNLxO7CyOms9dn0JHs5VWtOdzPM9a1Tjd33lAsVVRJA= Received: by 10.142.239.11 with SMTP id m11mr1104029wfh.1194824038994; Sun, 11 Nov 2007 15:33:58 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.142.108.8 with HTTP; Sun, 11 Nov 2007 15:33:58 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2007 23:33:58 +0000 From: mustkaru To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <4737869B.7020105@FreeBSD.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <4737869B.7020105@FreeBSD.org> X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sun, 11 Nov 2007 23:51:34 +0000 Subject: Re: RELENG_7: swap_pager_getswapspace(3): failed X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2007 23:34:15 -0000 On Nov 11, 2007 10:47 PM, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > mustkaru wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I updated to RELENG_7 two yesterday, and under usual load started > > getting hundreds of messages > > > > swap_pager_getswapspace(3): failed > > > > The system swap is 96% full; it is less than 20% usually under the > > same load. The system started to kill off processes because of lack of > > swap space: > > > > pid 52606 (thunderbird-bin), uid 1001, was killed: out of swap space > > swap_pager_getswapspace(2): failed > > pid 13984 (evince), uid 1001, was killed: out of swap space > > > > I suppose there's no way to get back to the more stable BETA2 ? When > > cvsuping, I noticed > > > > 52815 Nov 8 14:03 vm_page.c > > > > had been changed. Might it be related to that? Might a next possible > > change in that get back a more stable swapper. . .? > > This means you ran out of swap space because applications were > requesting more virtual memory than your system contains. This is an > application issue, not a kernel issue. > > Kris > > I hope so. It is weird though that I run exactly the same number of applications every day; and I ran the same binary apps on an earlier version of RELENG_7 (I updated system but not apps), but I never ran out of swap space; in particular I have never used more than .5 GB swap. This time, the system was using 1 GB swap. So I suppose I should start hunting the guilty app. Must --