From owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 30 17:43:42 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B321016A4CE for ; Mon, 30 Aug 2004 17:43:42 +0000 (GMT) Received: from out005.verizon.net (out005pub.verizon.net [206.46.170.143]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1BAB443D3F for ; Mon, 30 Aug 2004 17:43:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from [192.168.1.3] ([68.160.193.218]) by out005.verizon.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.06 201-253-122-130-106-20030910) with ESMTP id <20040830174316.RKFN8887.out005.verizon.net@[192.168.1.3]>; Mon, 30 Aug 2004 12:43:16 -0500 Message-ID: <41336719.1010800@mac.com> Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 13:42:49 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040803 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: spidey@act.co.za References: <000b01c48ea2$0b170280$0b01000a@SPIDEY> In-Reply-To: <000b01c48ea2$0b170280$0b01000a@SPIDEY> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH at out005.verizon.net from [68.160.193.218] at Mon, 30 Aug 2004 12:43:16 -0500 cc: FreeBSD-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: swap_pager_getswapspace: failed X-BeenThere: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Internet Services Providers List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 17:43:42 -0000 Spidey Knepscheld wrote: > I am running FreeBSD & Exim as MTA on the same server I run Squid as a > transperent proxy.The server is running very slow.I do have a type of > DoS at moment.My server admin is on holiday.Amavis and the Virus > Scanners seem to have stoped working so MyDoom & Netsky and what ever > you can imagine is loose on the network.I get the following error on the > monitor continiously : swap_pager_getswapspace: failed I've seen some signs that squid leaks memory, consider shutting it down and restarting it: /usr/local/etc/rc.d/squid.sh stop /usr/local/etc/rc.d/squid.sh start You might repeat the processes for the other services if that doesn't help, or even pretend it's a Windows box and reboot it :-), but the latter shouldn't be necessary if you figure out what it's doing and know enough to fix it. Looking at 'top' can also help. -- -Chuck