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Date:      Wed, 23 Oct 2002 18:34:59 -0700
From:      paul beard <pdb2@u.washington.edu>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   questions on swap_pager messages
Message-ID:  <3DB74E43.7080308@u.washington.edu>

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OK, I know what these mean: my machine ran out of available swap.

Oct 21 10:09:39 blue /kernel: pid 82313 (perl), uid 80, was 
killed: out of swap space
Oct 21 10:09:45 blue /kernel: swap_pager_getswapspace: failed
Oct 21 10:09:45 blue /kernel: pid 82458 (perl), uid 80, was 
killed: out of swap space
Oct 21 10:09:55 blue /kernel: swap_pager_getswapspace: failed

Trouble is, I have yet to catch it in the act. I know what was 
happening when these messages were logged: rebuilding the pages of 
a weblog (all done in perl). I can't reproduce it, now, for some 
reason.

This is an admittedly small machine: it's a 233 Celeron with 64 Mb 
real memory and 128 of swap, but it's lightly used (less than 1000 
webhits a day, natd/firewall service for my home LAN, and not much 
else).

I just starting graphing the available real and available swap 
here to see what I can find out about trends.

http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/mrtg/blue/blue-mem.html

Any suggestions besides more swap?
-- 
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paulbeard [at] mac [ dot] com / 206 529 8400

weblog @ <http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/>;

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satisfaction.


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