From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 28 16:31:45 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A6AAB1558D for ; Fri, 28 May 1999 16:31:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA27008; Fri, 28 May 1999 16:31:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Fri, 28 May 1999 16:31:37 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Jerry Preeper Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: swap_pager: out of swap space (-->crash) In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19990528154716.041b4280@crash.cts.com> 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 Fri, 28 May 1999, Jerry Preeper wrote: > I'm hoping someone might be able to provide some insight. When I got back > from lunch today, I found a few console messages on my connection to my > server running 2.2.8-Stable (from cvsup about 2 weeks ago), like this: (some odd wall messages) > and then found my nameserver and webserver dead. I rebooted the machine > and 10 minutes later, it crashed again. Reboot. Then crashes again. > Reboot again. > > I did get to download the messages file and after the first reboot found > this in the messages file (which is just filled with May 28 14:49:22 trixie > /kernel: pid 1302 (httpd), uid 50: exited on signal 11 messages): > > May 28 14:35:30 trixie named[675]: Ready to answer queries. > May 28 14:38:13 trixie proftpd[898]: FTP session closed. > May 28 14:39:11 trixie su: jerry to root on /dev/ttyp0 > May 28 14:43:06 trixie /kernel: swap_pager: out of swap space > May 28 14:43:15 trixie /kernel: pid 1139 (getad.cgi), uid 50: exited on > signal 11 > May 28 14:43:16 trixie /kernel: pid 1140 (getad.cgi), uid 50: exited on > signal 11 > May 28 14:43:25 trixie /kernel: swap_pager: out of swap space > May 28 14:48:16 trixie /kernel: pid 1144 (getad.cgi), uid 50: exited on > signal 11 > May 28 14:48:40 trixie named[675]: flushset: out of memory - ABORT > May 28 14:48:40 trixie /kernel: pid 675 (named), uid 0: exited on signal 6 > May 28 14:48:41 trixie /kernel: pid 1143 (perl5.00404), uid 50: exited on > signal 11 Looks like a runaway process. Perhaps your 'getad.cgi' has a bug? Watch top for a while. > The machine is PII-233, Asus P2L97S MB, 128 MB ram, 141 MB swap space, > 4.5GB Barracuda HD running basic web server functions. Apache is 1.3.4 and > sendmail is 8.9.2 You should have more swap. > Mounted on > /dev/sd0s1a 4168505 3157871 677154 82% 169750 844008 17% / > procfs 4 4 0 100% 44 4072 1% /proc > > so it seems I have plenty of room for the swap. I checked the archives and > saw that swap should be slightly more than RAM, which it is, but can't seem > to find out why this is happening. Swap is on a separate partition. What does 'swapinfo' report? Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message