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Date:      Thu, 11 Jan 2001 16:41:20 +0200
From:      Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
To:        Matthew Thyer <thyerm@camtech.net.au>
Cc:        Edwin Culp <eculp@encontacto.net>, current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: /boot/kernel/kernel: swap_pager_getswapspace: failed 
Message-ID:  <6360.979224080@axl.fw.uunet.co.za>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 12 Jan 2001 00:54:40 %2B1030." <3A5DC228.2E5D2504@camtech.net.au> 

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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.


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