From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 27 14:23:02 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80EAD1065676 for ; Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:23:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from amvandemore@gmail.com) Received: from mail-pz0-f193.google.com (mail-pz0-f193.google.com [209.85.222.193]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5435E8FC08 for ; Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:23:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pzk31 with SMTP id 31so133761pzk.28 for ; Tue, 27 Oct 2009 07:23:01 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=RMX0iJHcHfSKAdXKqI1rIEJlnQNIvKaLHYB/wrrb84U=; b=mD/s024FRst20C95z6PoirV0kR6Pa042GT9nQAyRHALhcjTDu2kwh9UPMe7f6rjUXf TmCBz9Fi+uy1NiRcxs3zfjyOkbnTNrvBJfexg6NKz80Wt261Cyiuf0yIK+U+OrLMDBlD tKVgQ4IpHGZs+hFQa5gZuxeUs9ZwEO/iD/Gnk= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=OPeTs4HiRNKkrMnsQbKFNRnIMFJFmGhoWOIVYulusTj6I0xc6d3GD3LtXv0EAX97Yb 3nlan30ICEJ7NI0vIxjFQ+cMEus74knHA5PV8+rZGfDfjWdTtBHbTnGVQxC+j/AA5PUS 4JMbRUNHWHYcipNUedwyF5FpJPEvjYaTdAfyk= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.142.7.39 with SMTP id 39mr1334690wfg.113.1256653379202; Tue, 27 Oct 2009 07:22:59 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <2dab70a30910270654j79c3627bp2f2af88894dce2f2@mail.gmail.com> References: <2dab70a30910270654j79c3627bp2f2af88894dce2f2@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 09:22:59 -0500 Message-ID: <6201873e0910270722h78abc53dneac85ce29553e3bf@mail.gmail.com> From: Adam Vande More To: Paul Halliday Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Looking for troubleshooting tips. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:23:02 -0000 On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 8:54 AM, Paul Halliday wrote: > I shift deleted my inbox and lost all of the original replies :( > > anyway... I have another sensor that just started to exhibit this same > behavior. This time though, I have some more info: > > swap_pager_getswapspace(4): failed > swap_pager_getswapspace(16): failed > swap_pager_getswapspace(16): failed > swap_pager_getswapspace(2): failed > pid 75157 (flow-report), uid 1001, was killed: out of swap space > > What made me notice this time was the zabbix (http://www.zabbix.com/) > agent on this host kept bumping online/offline. So it looks like we > are loaded enough to affect other processes as well. > > Is this just a matter of adding more ram? 1. This is what I would do provided 3 is explored appropriately > Or do I increase the swap space? 2. This works too, but keep in mind swap space is orders of magnitude slower than RAM. > Or is there another issue here; I have never ran out of swap space before? > 3. Could be a runaway process/memory leaking consuming all available resources. If that is the case 1 and 2 won't help so check this out first. > > Thanks. > Please don't top-post. -- Adam Vande More