Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2003 15:30:41 +0200 (MET DST) From: Borgmaster <ribo6611@student.uu.se> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Why has my swap pager gone nuts? Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.4.53.0304081521100.1772@trana.it.uu.se>
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Hi, Recently upgraded from 4.7-STABLE to 4.8. System seemed to work fine for a day or two, until I decided to portupgrade mozilla. Since then I am not able to compile anything without swap pager running out of swap space and many processes gets killed. When I try this, X is disabled but some daemons are running, such as Samba, ntpd, linux emulation, etc. Top reports ~430Mb free. I have 512Mb RAM in the machine and 256Mb swap partition. I know that one is supposed to have twice swap as physical RAM, but is that really necessary on my single user workstation? 1.5G of total memory is twice the memory I have in some other servers... The computer has been working just fine for a year or so, even with tons of applications loaded under X. I suspect something has happened in the process of upgrading 4.7->4.8. I've built and installed everything in single-user mode. Could it be some daemon that eats all the memory? As I wrote it, I though of a possible source, the linux stuff that loads with linux emulation and vmware. Are they known to be a problem when upgrading kernel and userland? Any tips appreciated. Best regards, Rickard Borgm=E4ster
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