From owner-freebsd-current Thu Jan 11 6:43:10 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from lists01.iafrica.com (lists01.iafrica.com [196.7.0.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4972437B400 for ; Thu, 11 Jan 2001 06:42:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from nwl.fw.uunet.co.za ([196.31.2.162]) by lists01.iafrica.com with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #2) id 14GiwC-00025Y-00; Thu, 11 Jan 2001 16:42:48 +0200 Received: (from nobody@localhost) by nwl.fw.uunet.co.za (8.8.8/8.6.9) id QAA22316; Thu, 11 Jan 2001 16:42:43 +0200 (SAST) Received: by nwl.fw.uunet.co.za via recvmail id 22124; Thu Jan 11 16:41:20 2001 Received: from sheldonh (helo=axl.fw.uunet.co.za) by axl.fw.uunet.co.za with local-esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 14Gium-0001eb-00; Thu, 11 Jan 2001 16:41:20 +0200 From: Sheldon Hearn To: Matthew Thyer Cc: Edwin Culp , current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /boot/kernel/kernel: swap_pager_getswapspace: failed In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 12 Jan 2001 00:54:40 +1030." <3A5DC228.2E5D2504@camtech.net.au> Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 16:41:20 +0200 Message-ID: <6360.979224080@axl.fw.uunet.co.za> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 12 Jan 2001 00:54:40 +1030, Matthew Thyer wrote: > > /boot/kernel/kernel: swap_pager_getswapspace: failed > > > > This seems to have started in the last week. > > > > I saw the same problem until I stopped using mfs on /tmp. > > Stop using mfs for /tmp. Are you sure it's not just /tmp "filling up" swap? If it's just that, all Edwin needs to do is limit the size of his MFS /tmp. I do this in /etc/fstab: /dev/ad0s1b /tmp mfs rw,-s=245760 0 0 See the description of the -s option in mount_mfs(8). Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message