Date: Fri, 1 May 1998 22:22:28 +0200 From: Berend de Boer <berend@pobox.com> To: "'FreeBSD stable'" <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: swap_pager: out of swap space, only power off did help Message-ID: <01BD754F.A0AB9EF0.berend@pobox.com>
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Hello All, My quite stable freebsd stable halted today with "swap_pager: out of swap space". Only a reboot did help. But within minutes this message came again. Help! I'm running stable from a few weeks ago. 1. What has happened? As far as I know someone send me a large (3MB) message, which sendmail spooled to /var/spool/mqueue (at least there I found it) and procmail tried to deliver it, without luck however. But /var/mail still did have 15MB free, so what could be wrong? This is a 16MB machine with a 40MB swap space. I finally fixed it be adding some 40MB more swap space, but just 40MB swap space for adding a 3MB msg seems a bit of overkill. With 80MB swap space it took a total of 60MB of swap space for procmail to deliver this. 2. How can I prevent this? The most important question of course. FreeBSD should not hang in such a case, but be ale to continue somehow, maybe by killing the offender. It's very easy to kill a FreeBSD machine in this respect. Just send it a 10MB msg and oops, the machine goes down. Any help/pointers appreciated. Groetjes, Berend. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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