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From: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@ki.net>
To: David Brockus <dbrockus@cyberhall.com>
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Subject: Re: swap_pager and vm_fault errors
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On Wed, 27 Mar 1996, David Brockus wrote:
> I am running FreeBSD 2.0.5R. I have started getting the following errors
> quite often.
>
> Mar 26 09:22:33 cyber1 /kernel: swap_pager: out of space
> Mar 26 09:22:35 cyber1 /kernel: Process 10098 killed by vm_fault -- out
> of swap
>
> This occurs when anyone has an e-mail message with an attached file of
> over 3 megs. When you run pine (version 3.91, package for 2.0.5R) it
> tries to open your inbox then suddenly pine is killed.
>
> You can still use "mail". If you use mail and delete the message, pine
> starts functioning again.
>
> Is this a problem with pine or with the virtual memory?
>
> Do I need to increase the amount of virtual memory?
>
How much real memory do you have currently? virtual memory?
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