From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 2 22:45:21 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from a16-c3.data-hotel.net (a16-c3.data-hotel.net [210.81.106.242]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 051FF37B718 for ; Fri, 2 Mar 2001 22:45:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from luke_k@data-hotel.net) Received: (qmail 49603 invoked from network); 3 Mar 2001 15:45:16 +0900 Received: from f08-a1.data-hotel.net (HELO asakusa) (210.81.45.2) by a16-c3.data-hotel.net with SMTP; 3 Mar 2001 15:45:16 +0900 Reply-To: From: "Luke Kearney" To: Subject: Out of Swap Memory Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2001 15:48:01 +0900 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-2022-jp" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi There, Having problem with a server, processes keep dying on me and the message log reports swap memory shortages. A little like this :> Mar 2 02:43:32 es1 /kernel: swap_pager_getswapspace: failed Mar 2 02:43:45 es1 last message repeated 83 times Mar 2 02:43:46 es1 /kernel: pid 57739 (in.ftpd), uid 2000, was killed: out of swap space Mar 2 02:43:47 es1 /kernel: pid 57741 (in.ftpd), uid 2000, was killed: out of swap space Mar 2 02:43:48 es1 /kernel: pid 57766 (in.ftpd), uid 0, was killed: out of swap space Mar 2 02:43:49 es1 /kernel: pid 57766 (in.ftpd), uid 0, was killed: out of swap space A quick look at the memory situation tells me that there should be a bit of slack still there :> [es1:edge/93]$top Last pid: 69736; load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 up 2+18:02:25 07:41:26 65 processes: 1 running, 62 sleeping, 2 zombie CPU states: 0.0% user, 0.0% nice, 0.0% system, 0.0% interrupt, 100% idle Mem: 3052K Active, 2516K Inact, 37M Wired, 32K Cache, 17M Buf, 205M Free Swap: 1024M Total, 28M Used, 996M Free, 2% Inuse The server is FreeBSD4.0 Release primarily running apache and qmail. It does not get hammered with traffic more of a constant but modest flow. I cannot think for the life of me why these messages keep comming up and if anyone out there can give me some pointers I would be most appreciative. Please reply directly with a copy to the list. Yours sincerely, Luke Kearney To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message