Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2006 22:32:16 -0500 From: pauls@utdallas.edu To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Running out of swap space???? Message-ID: <BBD83174399A4DA06C36E158@paul-schmehls-powerbook59.local>
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--==========6C2B2CF2AE89E9B59E03========== Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline I've got a server that is running out of swap space: +pid 37308 (mysqld), uid 88, was killed: out of swap space +swap_pager: out of swap space +swap_pager_getswapspace(1): failed The strange this is, this server has a 6GB swap partition! swapinfo -h Device 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity /dev/da0s1b 6291456 2.6G 6.0G 43% This isn't exactly a resource-starved machine either: CPU: AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 244 (1793.88-MHz K8-class CPU) Origin =3D "AuthenticAMD" Id =3D 0xf5a Stepping =3D 10 =20 Features=3D0x78bfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MC= A,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,MMX,FXSR,S SE,SSE2> AMD Features=3D0xe0500800<SYSCALL,NX,MMX+,LM,3DNow+,3DNow> real memory =3D 2146893824 (2047 MB) avail memory =3D 2065797120 (1970 MB) ACPI APIC Table: <PTLTD APIC > FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 2 CPUs cpu0 (BSP): APIC ID: 0 cpu1 (AP): APIC ID: 1 FreeBSD hostname.utdallas.edu 6.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE #0: Thu Mar=20 30 19:25:18 CST 2006=20 root@hostname.utdallas.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SMPKERNEL amd64 last pid: 52327; load averages: 0.45, 0.46, 0.45=20 up 11+03:42:04 03:32:15 63 processes: 1 running, 62 sleeping CPU states: 5.3% user, 0.0% nice, 0.8% system, 3.9% interrupt, 90.1%=20 idle Mem: 1410M Active, 126M Inact, 190M Wired, 82M Cache, 214M Buf, 78M Free Swap: 6144M Total, 2687M Used, 3457M Free, 43% Inuse Any suggestions are welcome - what could cause this? How to troubleshoot?=20 Possible solutions/workarounds? Paul Schmehl (pauls@utdallas.edu) Adjunct Information Security Officer The University of Texas at Dallas http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/ --==========6C2B2CF2AE89E9B59E03==========--
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