Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1998 01:20:01 -0800 (PST) From: Mark Newton <newton@atdot.dotat.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kern/7925: sendmail, inetd barf after a week or so of uptime Message-ID: <199812210920.BAA01057@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR kern/7925; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Mark Newton <newton@atdot.dotat.org>
To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG
Cc: Subject: Re: kern/7925: sendmail, inetd barf after a week or so of uptime
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1998 19:46:05 +1030 (CST)
FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG wrote:
> >Category: kern
> >Responsible: freebsd-bugs
> >Synopsis: sendmail, inetd SIGSEGV after forking after "enough" days of uptime
> >Arrival-Date: Sun Sep 13 23:30:01 PDT 1998
Further info: Many repeats of this bug indicate that it occurs
after the kernel prints "swap_pager: suggest more swap space: 128 MB"
messages. No reboots are required until that point.
I've added another disk to the machine with a 64 Mbyte swap partition
since then and the problem hasn't bitten at all.
pstat -s never indicated that I was running out of swap even when
that message was being printed, so I treated it as a "something to give
attention to one day" rather than an "emergency! your system will need a
reboot any minute now" kind of message.
The "suggest more swap" message used to come up fairly reliably if I
had two users running KDE and/or Netscape :-(
Message comes up if we've never seen it before and if
vm_swap_size < btodb(cnt.v_page_count * PAGE_SIZE). Where on earth
is "cnt" declared? A macro somewhere? hmm.
Anyway, hopefully this lends more info that can be used to fix this
rather long-standing bug (if it isn't fixed already; The PR is still
open, so I'm gathering it isn't).
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