Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2007 23:47:55 +0100 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org> To: mustkaru <karu.pruun@googlemail.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RELENG_7: swap_pager_getswapspace(3): failed Message-ID: <4737869B.7020105@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <a05fd0ec0711111204p6ea58851n81bb9457eecaba30@mail.gmail.com> References: <a05fd0ec0711111204p6ea58851n81bb9457eecaba30@mail.gmail.com>
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mustkaru wrote: > Hi, > > I updated to RELENG_7 two yesterday, and under usual load started > getting hundreds of messages > > swap_pager_getswapspace(3): failed > > The system swap is 96% full; it is less than 20% usually under the > same load. The system started to kill off processes because of lack of > swap space: > > pid 52606 (thunderbird-bin), uid 1001, was killed: out of swap space > swap_pager_getswapspace(2): failed > pid 13984 (evince), uid 1001, was killed: out of swap space > > I suppose there's no way to get back to the more stable BETA2 ? When > cvsuping, I noticed > > 52815 Nov 8 14:03 vm_page.c > > had been changed. Might it be related to that? Might a next possible > change in that get back a more stable swapper. . .? This means you ran out of swap space because applications were requesting more virtual memory than your system contains. This is an application issue, not a kernel issue. Kris
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