Date: Wed, 4 Jun 1997 08:50:15 +0000 From: "Derek Dresser" <derek@neis.net> To: dnews@adam.com.au Cc: pete@seguin.neis.net, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: out of swap space Message-ID: <199706041250.IAA21944@seguin.neis.net>
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I have been having an ongoing problem with dnews crashing due to a
lack of swap space. I am running dnews 4.2(d I think) on FreeBSD.
Here are the error messages.
Jun 4 02:04:19 news /kernel: swap_pager: out of swap space
Jun 4 02:04:32 news /kernel: swap_pager: out of swap space
Jun 4 02:04:39 news /kernel: Process 4837 killed by vm_fault -- out
of swap Jun 4 02:04:49 news /kernel: swap_pager: out of swap space
Jun 4 02:05:02 news /kernel: swap_pager: out of swap space Jun 4
02:05:03 news /kernel: Process 4840 killed by vm_fault -- out of swap
Jun 4 02:05:20 news /kernel: swap_pager: out of swap space Jun 4
02:05:58 news /kernel: swap_pager: out of swap space Jun 4 02:06:17
news /kernel: pid 151 (dnews), uid 0, was killed: out of swap space
I thought I had sufficient swap space. I have included some
disklabel information below. Basically we have a 1Gig drive with the
operating system on it, and a 4Gig drive as one big /news partition.
If I really do need to increase swap space, some brief instructions
would be helpful. If it might be something else, please explain. Is
there a way to adjust the swap space required by dnews, or is this
strictly an operating system/swap space issue?
e-mail reply would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Derek
here's the operating system disk
8 partitions:
# size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg]
a: 65536 0 4.2BSD 0 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 -
65535)
b: 151712 65536 swap # (Cyl.
65536 - 217247)
c: 2109840 0 unused 0 0
# (Cyl. 0 - 2109839)
e: 61440 217248 4.2BSD 0
0 0 # (Cyl. 217248 - 278687)
f: 1831152 278688 4.2BSD
0 0 0 # (Cyl. 278688 - 2109839)
here's the /news disk
3 partitions:
# size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg]
c: 8388064 0 4.2BSD 0 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 -
4095*)
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NEIS - New England Internet Services
http://www.neis.net/
Voice (207)828-8680 - Fax (207)828-8645
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