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Date:      Wed, 14 Apr 2010 06:44:58 +0200
From:      Gabor PALI <pgj@FreeBSD.org>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Strange Swapping Issues(?)
Message-ID:  <t2j685a6ef81004132144n8fff1b49r18b86c2e9127caa0@mail.gmail.com>

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Hello there,

I am running a FreeBSD/amd64 8-STABLE with GENERIC kernel as of
February 17 on my box (quad core, 2 GB RAM), and recently I spot some
interesting problems in my logs.  My machine runs two instances of a
client in two separate chroot environments in parallel with 32-bit and
64-bit userlands respectively, doing a nightly building and testing.
According to the logs it puts a nice load on my system, though it
still seems to be working fine.

Except one thing: it produces strange error messages on swap space
without an apparent reason (at least to me):

xxx# tail -f /var/log/messages
Apr 14 05:26:44 xxx kernel: swap_pager_getswapspace(4): failed
Apr 14 05:26:44 xxx kernel: swap_pager_getswapspace(16): failed
Apr 14 05:26:44 xxx kernel:
Apr 14 05:26:44 xxx kernel: swap_pager_getswapspace(3): failed
Apr 14 05:26:44 xxx kernel: swap_pager_getswapspace(16): failed
Apr 14 05:26:44 xxx kernel: swap_pager_getswapspace(3): failed
Apr 14 05:26:45 xxx kernel: swap_pager_getswapspace(16): failed
Apr 14 05:26:45 xxx kernel: swap_pager_getswapspace(12): failed
Apr 14 05:26:45 xxx kernel: swap_pager_getswapspace(2): failed
Apr 14 05:26:45 xxx kernel: swap_pager_getswapspace(16): failed
Apr 14 05:26:45 xxx kernel: swap_pager_getswapspace(16): failed
Apr 14 05:26:45 xxx kernel: pid 7388 (throwto003), uid 1001, was
killed: out of swap space
Apr 14 05:26:45 xxx kernel: swap_pager_getswapspace(16): failed
Apr 14 05:26:45 xxx kernel: swap_pager_getswapspace(8): failed
Apr 14 05:26:45 xxx kernel: swap_pager_getswapspace(16): failed
Apr 14 05:26:45 xxx kernel: swap_pager_getswapspace(16): failed
Apr 14 05:26:45 xxx kernel: swap_pager_getswapspace(8): failed
Apr 14 05:26:45 xxx kernel: swap_pager_getswapspace(16): failed
Apr 14 05:26:45 xxx kernel: swap_pager_getswapspace(12): failed
Apr 14 05:26:45 xxx kernel: swap_pager_getswapspace(9): failed
Apr 14 05:26:45 xxx kernel: swap_pager_getswapspace(16): failed
Apr 14 05:26:45 xxx kernel: swap_pager_getswapspace(9): failed
Apr 14 05:26:45 xxx kernel: swap_pager_getswapspace(3): failed
Apr 14 05:26:45 xxx kernel: swap_pager_getswapspace(16): failed
Apr 14 05:26:45 xxx kernel: swap_pager_getswapspace(9): failed
Apr 14 05:26:45 xxx kernel: swap_pager_getswapspace(3): failed
^C
xxx# swapinfo -h
Device          1K-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity
/dev/ad0s1b       4194304     112M     3.9G     3%


Do you have any ideas what might have happened?  Do I need to update
or configure something?

Thank you very much for your replies in advance.

Cheers,
:g



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