From owner-freebsd-bugs Tue Nov 14 12:40: 8 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44B0737B479 for ; Tue, 14 Nov 2000 12:40:06 -0800 (PST) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.9.3/8.9.2) id MAA10158; Tue, 14 Nov 2000 12:40:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 12:40:06 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200011142040.MAA10158@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Cc: From: David Malone Subject: Re: kern/22847: FreeBSD 4.1.1 - Kernel problems Reply-To: David Malone Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR kern/22847; it has been noted by GNATS. From: David Malone To: jfa@mail.sonet.pt Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: kern/22847: FreeBSD 4.1.1 - Kernel problems Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 20:37:52 +0000 On Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 12:28:26PM -0800, jfa@mail.sonet.pt wrote: > >Description: > The Kernel of FreeBSD 4.1.1, is to use swap, where the free server has memory, and passed one week, the server crash for: > > zeus /kernel: swap_pager_getswapspace: failed > zeus /kernel: pid 89825 (BitchX-1.0c17), uid 1029, was killed: out of swap space > zeus /kernel: pid 95115 (cron), uid 0, was killed: out of swap space These messages occur when you run out of swap space. Usually it kills the largest running process, so I'm slightly suprised that cron got killed. Can you watch for either lots of small processes building up, or one or two large processes? David. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message