Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2004 11:39:49 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Randy Pratt <rpratt1950@earthlink.net> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: swap_pager_getswapspace: failed Message-ID: <20040701183949.GA30537@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20040701101506.58d3bbed.rpratt1950@earthlink.net> References: <20040701101506.58d3bbed.rpratt1950@earthlink.net>
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--n8g4imXOkfNTN/H1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 10:15:06AM -0400, Randy Pratt wrote: > I had an odd thing happen yesterday that I've never seen. Here's the > info from /var/log/messages: >=20 > Jun 30 11:06:22 kt /kernel: swap_pager_getswapspace: failed > Jun 30 11:06:23 kt last message repeated 26 times > Jun 30 11:07:27 kt last message repeated 25 times > Jun 30 11:12:23 kt last message repeated 44 times > Jun 30 11:12:23 kt /kernel: pid 876 (opera), uid 1001, was killed: out of= swap space >=20 > Eventually things got worse. I tried to switch to another > workspace and lost 4 out of 7 workspaces. The applications that > were there were still running. After manually killing the=20 > processes, I rebooted and things returned to normal. > If this happens again, what kind of information should I collect > so that it might be of value? Use top or ps to find out what process is using all the swap. Kris --n8g4imXOkfNTN/H1 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFA5Fp1Wry0BWjoQKURAo2eAJ9oWsyKyuwwZRImoMJArO+y1Smr9ACgy8AS vn1p3sP/xFJrFlvnY4Mowss= =p+vv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --n8g4imXOkfNTN/H1--
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