Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 11:01:20 +0100 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org> To: Beech Rintoul <beech@freebsd.org> Cc: mustkaru <karu.pruun@googlemail.com>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RELENG_7: swap_pager_getswapspace(3): failed Message-ID: <47382470.3070001@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <200711120020.26076.beech@freebsd.org> References: <a05fd0ec0711111204p6ea58851n81bb9457eecaba30@mail.gmail.com> <4737869B.7020105@FreeBSD.org> <a05fd0ec0711111533x2e5938ebx40121dd946fe2c04@mail.gmail.com> <200711120020.26076.beech@freebsd.org>
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Beech Rintoul wrote: > On Sunday 11 November 2007, mustkaru said: >> On Nov 11, 2007 10:47 PM, Kris Kennaway <kris@freebsd.org> 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. > > I'm seeing the exact same thing. I'm running -current from yesterday > and this box is lightly loaded. I can't track it down to a specific > process, but all of a sudden normal compiles are running me out of > vm. This box has 500Mb ram and a gig of swap and has never run out of > memory before. None of my applications have changed. I'm also > starting to see it on a client's box I recently updated to 7.0, That > box has 1Gb ram and 2Gb swap and is just a desktop and mailserver. > I don't think this is application related. Then you have further investigation to do to prove that theory :) Kris
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