Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:18:35 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com> To: Oliver Fischer <plexus@snafu.de> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unkillable process Message-ID: <20040218181735.Y43291@carver.gumbysoft.com> In-Reply-To: <4033CE03.7070007@snafu.de> References: <4033CE03.7070007@snafu.de>
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On Wed, 18 Feb 2004, Oliver Fischer wrote: > Hello, > > today one of my bashs started to allocate more and more memory. I tried > to kill the process but I didn't succeed. The final result was a system > panic and a lot of error messages like this one: > > Feb 18 13:39:43 warpgondel2 kernel: swap_pager_getswapspace(12): failed > Feb 18 13:39:43 warpgondel2 kernel: swap_pager_getswapspace(9): failed > Feb 18 13:39:43 warpgondel2 kernel: swap_pager_getswapspace(5): failed > > I use FreeBSD 5 now for more then 8 months. During this time I have seen > five or more unkillable processes. This is usually caused by your I/O system going to lunch, or at least where your swap partition is. Another telltale is the "swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer" message. -- Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve dwhite@gumbysoft.com | www.FreeBSD.org
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