From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 4 05:53:07 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id FAA26266 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 4 Jun 1997 05:53:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from seguin.neis.net (seguin.neis.net [204.249.228.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id FAA26258 for ; Wed, 4 Jun 1997 05:53:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Muddy.neis.net (muddy.neis.net [206.106.237.5]) by seguin.neis.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id IAA21944; Wed, 4 Jun 1997 08:50:16 -0400 Message-Id: <199706041250.IAA21944@seguin.neis.net> Comments: Authenticated sender is From: "Derek Dresser" To: dnews@adam.com.au Date: Wed, 4 Jun 1997 08:50:15 +0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: out of swap space Reply-to: derek@neis.net CC: pete@seguin.neis.net, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v2.52) Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I have been having an ongoing problem with dnews crashing due to a lack of swap space. I am running dnews 4.2(d I think) on FreeBSD. Here are the error messages. Jun 4 02:04:19 news /kernel: swap_pager: out of swap space Jun 4 02:04:32 news /kernel: swap_pager: out of swap space Jun 4 02:04:39 news /kernel: Process 4837 killed by vm_fault -- out of swap Jun 4 02:04:49 news /kernel: swap_pager: out of swap space Jun 4 02:05:02 news /kernel: swap_pager: out of swap space Jun 4 02:05:03 news /kernel: Process 4840 killed by vm_fault -- out of swap Jun 4 02:05:20 news /kernel: swap_pager: out of swap space Jun 4 02:05:58 news /kernel: swap_pager: out of swap space Jun 4 02:06:17 news /kernel: pid 151 (dnews), uid 0, was killed: out of swap space I thought I had sufficient swap space. I have included some disklabel information below. Basically we have a 1Gig drive with the operating system on it, and a 4Gig drive as one big /news partition. If I really do need to increase swap space, some brief instructions would be helpful. If it might be something else, please explain. Is there a way to adjust the swap space required by dnews, or is this strictly an operating system/swap space issue? e-mail reply would be appreciated. Thanks, Derek here's the operating system disk 8 partitions: # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] a: 65536 0 4.2BSD 0 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 65535) b: 151712 65536 swap # (Cyl. 65536 - 217247) c: 2109840 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 2109839) e: 61440 217248 4.2BSD 0 0 0 # (Cyl. 217248 - 278687) f: 1831152 278688 4.2BSD 0 0 0 # (Cyl. 278688 - 2109839) here's the /news disk 3 partitions: # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] c: 8388064 0 4.2BSD 0 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 4095*) ------------------------------------------------ Derek Dresser Vice President, Internet Services NEIS - New England Internet Services http://www.neis.net/ Voice (207)828-8680 - Fax (207)828-8645 ------------------------------------------------