From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 15 22:59:05 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA24465 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 15 Jun 1998 22:59:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from Michelle.esfm.ipn.mx (Michelle.esfm.ipn.mx [148.204.104.23]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA24413 for ; Mon, 15 Jun 1998 22:58:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mrspock@esfm.ipn.mx) Received: from localhost (mrspock@localhost) by Michelle.esfm.ipn.mx (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id AAA04413; Tue, 16 Jun 1998 00:46:42 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from mrspock@esfm.ipn.mx) X-Authentication-Warning: Michelle.esfm.ipn.mx: mrspock owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 16 Jun 1998 00:46:42 -0500 (CDT) From: Eduardo Viruena Silva To: Doug White cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sudden 2.2.6 reboot In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 15 Jun 1998, Doug White wrote: > On Fri, 12 Jun 1998, Eduardo Viruena Silva wrote: > > > When my FreeBSD-2.2.6 box is displaying graphical information > > (ghostscript, xdvi, gnuplot, ImageMagick, etc) it seems to > > be allocating memory and freeing it. It is ok. But if I make > > for too long, my system suddenly freezes and reboots. > > > > Do you have any idea of what is happening? > > Probably out of swap. Keep an eye on top or swapinfo while you're using > these programs. > Thank you Mr. White, I doubt it is swaping space, I think it is large enough. (I'm including my disklabel's output). I will try to keep an eye on it anyway. How can I do it? How can I know if my swap space is working fine? Thanks for answering. Best regards, -Eduardo. # /dev/wd0s2: type: ESDI disk: wd0s2 label: flags: bytes/sector: 512 sectors/track: 63 tracks/cylinder: 64 sectors/cylinder: 4032 cylinders: 530 sectors/unit: 2136960 rpm: 3600 interleave: 1 trackskew: 0 cylinderskew: 0 headswitch: 0 # milliseconds track-to-track seek: 0 # milliseconds drivedata: 0 8 partitions: # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] a: 1878912 258048 4.2BSD 0 0 0 # (Cyl. 64 - 529) b: 258048 0 swap # (Cyl. 0 - 63) c: 2136960 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 529) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message