From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 3 12:18:34 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA14214 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 3 Jul 1996 12:18:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from relay-2.mail.demon.net (disperse.demon.co.uk [158.152.1.77]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA14194 for ; Wed, 3 Jul 1996 12:18:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from post.demon.co.uk ([158.152.1.72]) by relay-2.mail.demon.net id ak15385; 3 Jul 96 20:18 +0100 Received: from jraynard.demon.co.uk ([158.152.42.77]) by relay-3.mail.demon.net id aa00930; 3 Jul 96 20:17 +0100 Received: (from fqueries@localhost) by jraynard.demon.co.uk (8.6.12/8.6.12) id LAA01084; Wed, 3 Jul 1996 11:44:45 GMT Date: Wed, 3 Jul 1996 11:44:45 GMT Message-Id: <199607031144.LAA01084@jraynard.demon.co.uk> From: James Raynard To: bala@cst.com.au CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-reply-to: <199607030909.TAA01628@skeg.cst.com.au> (message from Bala Periasamy on Wed, 3 Jul 1996 19:09:55 +1000 (EST)) Subject: Re: Majordomo problem (help) Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >>>>> Bala Periasamy writes: > > Running FreeBSD 2.1.0 > Majordomo 1.93 > > syslog error: > swap_pager: out of space > Process 192 killed by vm_fault -- out of swap > pid 196: perl: uid 54: exited on signal 11 As it suggests, the system has run out of swap - at a minimum, you should have 2MB of swap for every MB of RAM, more if you run pigs like Netscape or Emacs. You can use 'ps -vax' to identify which processes are using a lot of virtual memory. -- James Raynard, Edinburgh, Scotland james@jraynard.demon.co.uk http://www.freebsd.org/~jraynard/