Date: Sat, 5 May 2007 09:51:11 -0700 From: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: "Marc G. Fournier" <freebsd@hub.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: swap zone exhausted, increase kern.maxswzone Message-ID: <20070505165111.GJ17958@funkthat.com> In-Reply-To: <F7A69B1C2C53E12D2A2DCB1A@ganymede.hub.org> References: <5580F93A753EBAEF71B41EE7@ganymede.hub.org> <20070505160655.GA847@xor.obsecurity.org> <F7A69B1C2C53E12D2A2DCB1A@ganymede.hub.org>
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Marc G. Fournier wrote this message on Sat, May 05, 2007 at 13:15 -0300:
> - --On Saturday, May 05, 2007 12:06:55 -0400 Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
> wrote:
>
> > On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 12:38:39PM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> >>
> >> What exactly does that one mean? I've searched Google, and all I'm finding
> >> is a pointer to swap_pager.c, but nothing else ...
> >>
> >> What does that one mean? What would cause that sort of error?
> >
> > You need to increase the kern.maxswzone tunable to enable more space
^^^^^^^
> > for active swap.
>
> Apparently that doesn't exist on 6-STABLE, although its generating the error?
>
> # sysctl kern.maxswzone
> sysctl: unknown oid 'kern.maxswzone'
A tunable doesn't need to exist in the sysctl domain... simply add it
to /boot/loader.conf as documented in conf/NOTES or defaults/loader.conf...
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