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Date:      Tue, 10 Nov 1998 09:16:16 -0500 (EST)
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@hotjobs.com>
To:        Phil Regnauld <regnauld@EU.org>
Cc:        alk@pobox.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: The infamous dying daemons bug
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9811100914130.343-100000@porkfriedrice.ny.genx.net>
In-Reply-To: <19981110145245.60834@stimpy.prosa.dk>

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Now that i think about it i have had the:

/kernel: swap_pager: suggest more swap space: 254 MB

unsure about the number, but in my case i didn't notice anything flaky
about my system afterwards.

(i had left for work and done a 
make -j<some really large number for kicks> buildworld)

Alfred Perlstein - Programmer, HotJobs Inc. - www.hotjobs.com
-- There are operating systems, and then there's FreeBSD.
-- http://www.freebsd.org/                        3.0-current

On Tue, 10 Nov 1998, Phil Regnauld wrote:

> Tony Kimball writes:
> > Lately, I'm still seing lines like this:
> > 
> > > Apr 19 12:03:43 lupo /kernel: swap_pager: suggest more swap space: 124 MB
> 
> 	I have a stupid program that mallocs all the memory it can, then gets
> 	shot by the system.
> 
> 	The system has 128MB RAM, and 256 MB swap.
> 
> 	Around 100MB of swap used, the system comes out and says:
> 
> 
> /kernel: swap_pager: suggest more swap space: 254 MB
> 
> 
> 	- Is it supposed to come out that early
>   - What is the suggestion based on ?  Is it telling me
> 	to _add_ 254MB of swap to my system (+ 254 = 510 MB), or
> 	to _increase_ my swap space, which already is above
> 	254 ?  This looks a bit weird...
> 
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