Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2006 05:51:57 +1100 From: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au> To: Dmitry Pryanishnikov <dmitry@atlantis.dp.ua> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RELENG_4 on flash disk and swap Message-ID: <20060303185157.GB692@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <20060303110936.R86586@atlantis.atlantis.dp.ua> References: <20060302181625.I3905@atlantis.atlantis.dp.ua> <76FAD2DB-CD18-42D4-95C8-F016CFB17B00@segpub.com.au> <20060303110936.R86586@atlantis.atlantis.dp.ua>
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On Fri, 2006-Mar-03 11:16:00 +0200, Dmitry Pryanishnikov wrote: > I'm running some heavy tests on my machine (256Mb RAM, HDD, no swap, >4.11-RELEASE) such as "make buildwolrd". After successful completion of >this procedure I issued "rm -rf /usr/obj/usr" and got the following >(single) message from kernel: > >Mar 3 11:05:32 test3 /kernel: swap_pager_getswapspace: failed > >Does anybody know whether it's harmless? It depends what you mean by "harmless". The kernel tried to allocate swap space for a process and failed. The kernel tries to recover by killing the largest process (which should also be syslog'd). I'm surprised that you got this on the "rm" as the buildworld should create bigger processes. If the "rm" was killed, you will need to re-issue it to actually delete the files. -- Peter Jeremy
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