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Date:      Sat, 3 Mar 2001 15:48:01 +0900
From:      "Luke Kearney" <luke_k@data-hotel.net>
To:        <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Out of Swap Memory
Message-ID:  <EAEEIMNMJKACDJAOKMOGEEFIDFAA.luke_k@data-hotel.net>

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Hi There,
Having problem with a server, processes keep dying on me and the message log
reports swap memory shortages.  A little like this :>

Mar  2 02:43:32 es1 /kernel: swap_pager_getswapspace: failed
Mar  2 02:43:45 es1 last message repeated 83 times
Mar  2 02:43:46 es1 /kernel: pid 57739 (in.ftpd), uid 2000, was killed: out
of swap space
Mar  2 02:43:47 es1 /kernel: pid 57741 (in.ftpd), uid 2000, was killed: out
of swap space
Mar  2 02:43:48 es1 /kernel: pid 57766 (in.ftpd), uid 0, was killed: out of
swap space
Mar  2 02:43:49 es1 /kernel: pid 57766 (in.ftpd), uid 0, was killed: out of
swap space

A quick look at the memory situation tells me that there should be a bit of
slack still there :>

[es1:edge/93]$top
Last pid: 69736;  load averages:  0.00,  0.00,  0.00
up 2+18:02:25  07:41:26
65 processes:  1 running, 62 sleeping, 2 zombie
CPU states:  0.0% user,  0.0% nice,  0.0% system,  0.0% interrupt,  100%
idle
Mem: 3052K Active, 2516K Inact, 37M Wired, 32K Cache, 17M Buf, 205M Free
Swap: 1024M Total, 28M Used, 996M Free, 2% Inuse

The server is FreeBSD4.0 Release primarily running apache and qmail. It does
not get hammered with traffic more of a constant but modest flow.

I cannot think for the life of me why these messages keep comming up and if
anyone out there can give me some pointers I would be most appreciative.

Please reply directly with a copy to the list.

Yours sincerely,

Luke Kearney





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