From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 14 05:15:14 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56B80106564A for ; Wed, 14 Apr 2010 05:15:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pali.gabor@googlemail.com) Received: from mail-bw0-f216.google.com (mail-bw0-f216.google.com [209.85.218.216]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D405F8FC08 for ; Wed, 14 Apr 2010 05:15:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bwz8 with SMTP id 8so5079165bwz.3 for ; Tue, 13 Apr 2010 22:15:12 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:sender:received:date :x-google-sender-auth:received:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=FmDrXvxtgIFfEexgWSrprfXCiMdZ9DkkXNFYpAQVtEU=; b=NnQFPmJDX5OvoYpBExKT4FtEDRYj5IsIkJuSn7e2JFtB1tMWqISCfqX6xirQVrMatf iey+Wxso5hbRFnnYIOvOk5KiXwYjZulDHLpQ2ZBKjx7h27qgES2JE3lKv32vvI1odcdd BCNspCOxqlLREmTQlP7Fq10zfsHLm8+81XO9g= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject :from:to:content-type; b=BAdIq9ZKjrvNp5/PAhXR5hspUK47PaIKw9aCRTbrpon4zidlbCw68d9kRTR3Xgr794 yPzvgBHrAYTL9MU5vPEuxxd7OWnNFM4ef/gYZqf75nhxLH6+MAmT/8bY6qtEnfjxxSTA F1BXdfvBNTQNfkYx5tXNTNIVxfyQh7Odzvtjs= MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: pali.gabor@googlemail.com Received: by 10.223.105.84 with HTTP; Tue, 13 Apr 2010 21:44:58 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 06:44:58 +0200 X-Google-Sender-Auth: b59f4e8cbbd4b0f1 Received: by 10.223.58.83 with SMTP id f19mr3653666fah.88.1271220298591; Tue, 13 Apr 2010 21:44:58 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: From: Gabor PALI To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Subject: Strange Swapping Issues(?) X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 05:15:14 -0000 Hello there, I am running a FreeBSD/amd64 8-STABLE with GENERIC kernel as of February 17 on my box (quad core, 2 GB RAM), and recently I spot some interesting problems in my logs. My machine runs two instances of a client in two separate chroot environments in parallel with 32-bit and 64-bit userlands respectively, doing a nightly building and testing. According to the logs it puts a nice load on my system, though it still seems to be working fine. Except one thing: it produces strange error messages on swap space without an apparent reason (at least to me): xxx# tail -f /var/log/messages Apr 14 05:26:44 xxx kernel: swap_pager_getswapspace(4): failed Apr 14 05:26:44 xxx kernel: swap_pager_getswapspace(16): failed Apr 14 05:26:44 xxx kernel: Apr 14 05:26:44 xxx kernel: swap_pager_getswapspace(3): failed Apr 14 05:26:44 xxx kernel: swap_pager_getswapspace(16): failed Apr 14 05:26:44 xxx kernel: swap_pager_getswapspace(3): failed Apr 14 05:26:45 xxx kernel: swap_pager_getswapspace(16): failed Apr 14 05:26:45 xxx kernel: swap_pager_getswapspace(12): failed Apr 14 05:26:45 xxx kernel: swap_pager_getswapspace(2): failed Apr 14 05:26:45 xxx kernel: swap_pager_getswapspace(16): failed Apr 14 05:26:45 xxx kernel: swap_pager_getswapspace(16): failed Apr 14 05:26:45 xxx kernel: pid 7388 (throwto003), uid 1001, was killed: out of swap space Apr 14 05:26:45 xxx kernel: swap_pager_getswapspace(16): failed Apr 14 05:26:45 xxx kernel: swap_pager_getswapspace(8): failed Apr 14 05:26:45 xxx kernel: swap_pager_getswapspace(16): failed Apr 14 05:26:45 xxx kernel: swap_pager_getswapspace(16): failed Apr 14 05:26:45 xxx kernel: swap_pager_getswapspace(8): failed Apr 14 05:26:45 xxx kernel: swap_pager_getswapspace(16): failed Apr 14 05:26:45 xxx kernel: swap_pager_getswapspace(12): failed Apr 14 05:26:45 xxx kernel: swap_pager_getswapspace(9): failed Apr 14 05:26:45 xxx kernel: swap_pager_getswapspace(16): failed Apr 14 05:26:45 xxx kernel: swap_pager_getswapspace(9): failed Apr 14 05:26:45 xxx kernel: swap_pager_getswapspace(3): failed Apr 14 05:26:45 xxx kernel: swap_pager_getswapspace(16): failed Apr 14 05:26:45 xxx kernel: swap_pager_getswapspace(9): failed Apr 14 05:26:45 xxx kernel: swap_pager_getswapspace(3): failed ^C xxx# swapinfo -h Device 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity /dev/ad0s1b 4194304 112M 3.9G 3% Do you have any ideas what might have happened? Do I need to update or configure something? Thank you very much for your replies in advance. Cheers, :g