From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 6 04:17:36 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0999416B058 for ; Tue, 6 Jun 2006 03:32:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pauls@utdallas.edu) Received: from mail.stovebolt.com (mail.stovebolt.com [66.221.101.248]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4004A43D5A for ; Tue, 6 Jun 2006 03:32:22 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from pauls@utdallas.edu) Received: from [192.168.2.102] (adsl-65-71-93-103.dsl.rcsntx.swbell.net [65.71.93.103]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.stovebolt.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D754D1143F9 for ; Mon, 5 Jun 2006 22:23:37 -0500 (CDT) Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2006 22:32:16 -0500 From: pauls@utdallas.edu To: questions@FreeBSD.org Message-ID: X-Mailer: Mulberry/4.0.0 (Mac OS X) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=sha1; protocol="application/pkcs7-signature"; boundary="==========6C2B2CF2AE89E9B59E03==========" X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Subject: Running out of swap space???? 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, 06 Jun 2006 04:17:40 -0000 --==========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 AMD Features=3D0xe0500800 real memory =3D 2146893824 (2047 MB) avail memory =3D 2065797120 (1970 MB) ACPI APIC Table: 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==========--