From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 23 18:35:17 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E75937B401 for ; Wed, 23 Oct 2002 18:35:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rwcrmhc53.attbi.com (rwcrmhc53.attbi.com [204.127.198.39]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB14343E4A for ; Wed, 23 Oct 2002 18:35:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pdb2@u.washington.edu) Received: from u.washington.edu ([12.231.115.57]) by rwcrmhc53.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20021024013515.QYOW8248.rwcrmhc53.attbi.com@u.washington.edu> for ; Thu, 24 Oct 2002 01:35:15 +0000 Message-ID: <3DB74E43.7080308@u.washington.edu> Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 18:34:59 -0700 From: paul beard Organization: University of Washington User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20021021 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: questions on swap_pager messages Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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? -- Paul Beard / 8040 27th Ave NE / Seattle WA 98115 / paulbeard [at] mac [ dot] com / 206 529 8400 weblog @ Newton's Fourth Law: Every action has an equal and opposite satisfaction. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message