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Date:      Sun, 14 Jan 2001 16:41:30 +1030
From:      Matthew Thyer <thyerm@camtech.net.au>
To:        Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
Cc:        Edwin Culp <eculp@encontacto.net>, current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: /boot/kernel/kernel: swap_pager_getswapspace: failed
Message-ID:  <3A614312.DAAEA5E0@camtech.net.au>
References:  <12391.979395443@axl.fw.uunet.co.za>

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Sheldon Hearn wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 13 Jan 2001 15:50:15 +1030, Matthew Thyer wrote:
> 
> > > Then don't limit the size! :-)
> >
> > I dont.  So what next ?
> >
> > Since I dont have much time for debugging FreeBSD, I stopped using
> > mfs instead.
> 
> This is a very simple problem -- you're running out of space.  If you
> can't do anything about the amount of space used in /tmp, then either
> swap fills up or you limit the size of mfs.
> 
> If you don't like either of those, use a separate partition for /tmp.
> But then you may as well use that partition as extra swap space and
> continue to mount /tmp in mfs. :-)

Sheldon, I'm not stupid.

At the time the message occurred I had less than 6 MB usage in
/tmp if that.

I have 128MB of RAM and 500MB swap.


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