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Date:      Sat, 17 Sep 2005 11:57:35 -0700
From:      snacktime <snacktime@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   server locks up when unable to allocate swap
Message-ID:  <1f060c4c05091711577de1e539@mail.gmail.com>

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A FBSD 4.7 server this morning locked up and when I got to the data center =
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found a bunch of IO error messages saying the pager couldn't allocate neede=
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swap space (or something close to that). Unfortunately these messages didn'=
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get logged anywhere that I could find and I didn't have anything on me to=
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write them down. The server has 500mb ram and is usually using about 70% of=
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that. The server didn't panic, but the console was not responsive so I had=
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to do a cold reboot. Everything came back up fine.

Any ideas on how to debug this further? This server has run with the same=
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configuration (apache/zope/mysql/qmail) for about 2 years without any=20
issues. If something did actually use up all the swap, would what happened=
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be normal behavior?=20

Chris



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