From owner-freebsd-current Tue Nov 10 06:16:00 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA27161 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 10 Nov 1998 06:16:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from porkfriedrice.ny.genx.net (porkfriedrice.ny.genx.net [206.64.4.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA27156 for ; Tue, 10 Nov 1998 06:15:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bright@hotjobs.com) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by porkfriedrice.ny.genx.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id JAA01180; Tue, 10 Nov 1998 09:16:16 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from bright@hotjobs.com) X-Authentication-Warning: porkfriedrice.ny.genx.net: bright owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 09:16:16 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein X-Sender: bright@porkfriedrice.ny.genx.net To: Phil Regnauld cc: alk@pobox.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The infamous dying daemons bug In-Reply-To: <19981110145245.60834@stimpy.prosa.dk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Now that i think about it i have had the: /kernel: swap_pager: suggest more swap space: 254 MB unsure about the number, but in my case i didn't notice anything flaky about my system afterwards. (i had left for work and done a make -j buildworld) Alfred Perlstein - Programmer, HotJobs Inc. - www.hotjobs.com -- There are operating systems, and then there's FreeBSD. -- http://www.freebsd.org/ 3.0-current On Tue, 10 Nov 1998, Phil Regnauld wrote: > Tony Kimball writes: > > Lately, I'm still seing lines like this: > > > > > Apr 19 12:03:43 lupo /kernel: swap_pager: suggest more swap space: 124 MB > > I have a stupid program that mallocs all the memory it can, then gets > shot by the system. > > The system has 128MB RAM, and 256 MB swap. > > Around 100MB of swap used, the system comes out and says: > > > /kernel: swap_pager: suggest more swap space: 254 MB > > > - Is it supposed to come out that early > - What is the suggestion based on ? Is it telling me > to _add_ 254MB of swap to my system (+ 254 = 510 MB), or > to _increase_ my swap space, which already is above > 254 ? This looks a bit weird... > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message