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 I found a bunch of IO error messages saying the pager couldn't allocate needed swap space (or something close to that). Unfortunately these messages didn't get logged anywhere that I could find and I didn't have anything on me to write them down. The server has 500mb ram and is usually using about 70% of that. The server didn't panic, but the console was not responsive so I had 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 configuration (apache/zope/mysql/qmail) for about 2 years without any issues. If something did actually use up all the swap, would what happened be normal behavior? Chrishelp
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