Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 18:07:59 -0500 From: Daniel Frazier <dfrazier@magpage.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: swap_pager_getswapspace: failed -- not a lack of swap space... Message-ID: <3A1B004F.3C611CD5@magpage.com>
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My workstation is hurting. A week or so ago I had been experiencing severe slowdowns that hung my machine within a few seconds. This was happening randomly, sometimes it would happen every other day, sometimes twice in one hour. I'm in X whenever this happens. It seems like if I am quick enough I can hit ctl-alt-backspace and drop back to the console (although it takes up to 10 minutes to do so), but I have to catch it in the 2-4 seconds it's slowing down but not yet hung. If I miss that window I have to hit the reset button. If I manage to drop back to the console I see... /kernel: swap_pager_getswapspace: failed ...scrolling off the screen, and swapinfo shows very little swap space utilization. There's no other indication of anything going wrong, nothing in /var/log/messages except for what was echo'd to the console that would indicate a problem, no core dump, nothing (unless I'm not looking in the right place, that is). I've added a swapfile but the messages continue. I've re-made world(since it had been a month or so since my box was STABLE) but this issue continues. I've searched the mailing list archives and found one thing that I thought might help (but didn't), putting "MOZILLA_NO_ASYNC_DNS=True; export MOZILLA_NO_ASYNC_DNS" in /etc/profile, but the rest just seemed to say "add more swap space..." I'm at a loss and a little frustrated so I apologize if I've been rambling, but I would very much appreciate any help here. Any info that would help me track down what process is causing this, or even something to do next time this happens to try to get some useable info, would be great. Here's some info, if there's anything relevant/important I'm leaving out please let me know... This box is a Celeron 500 with 128M of RAM and is usually running XFree86-3.3.6_1, gnome-1.2, linux-netscape-communicator-4.75 and a bunch of Eterms. poomba: ~ # uname -a FreeBSD poomba.magpage.com 4.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE #0: Mon Nov 20 16:49:22 EST 2000 root@poomba.magpage.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/FBSD4 i386 poomba: ~ # swapinfo Device 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Type /dev/rad0s1b 267256 0 267256 0% Interleaved /dev/rvn0b 255872 0 255872 0% Interleaved Total 523128 0 523128 0% Here's my kernel config file... machine i386 cpu I686_CPU ident "FBSD4" maxusers 32 options INET #InterNETworking options FFS #Berkeley Fast Filesystem options FFS_ROOT #FFS usable as root device [keep this!] options SOFTUPDATES #Enable FFS soft updates support options CD9660 #ISO 9660 Filesystem options CD9660_ROOT #CD-ROM usable as root, CD9660 required options PROCFS #Process filesystem options COMPAT_43 #Compatible with BSD 4.3 [KEEP THIS!] options UCONSOLE #Allow users to grab the console options USERCONFIG #boot -c editor options VISUAL_USERCONFIG #visual boot -c editor options KTRACE #ktrace(1) support options SYSVSHM #SYSV-style shared memory options SYSVMSG #SYSV-style message queues options SYSVSEM #SYSV-style semaphores options P1003_1B #Posix P1003_1B real-time extensions options _KPOSIX_PRIORITY_SCHEDULING options ICMP_BANDLIM #Rate limit bad replies options KBD_INSTALL_CDEV # install a CDEV entry in /dev device isa device eisa device pci device fdc0 at isa? port IO_FD1 irq 6 drq 2 device fd0 at fdc0 drive 0 device ata device atadisk # ATA disk drives device atapicd # ATAPI CDROM drives options ATA_STATIC_ID #Static device numbering options ATA_ENABLE_ATAPI_DMA #Enable DMA on ATAPI devices device atkbdc0 at isa? port IO_KBD device atkbd0 at atkbdc? irq 1 flags 0x1 device psm0 at atkbdc? irq 12 flags 0x100 device vga0 at isa? pseudo-device splash device sc0 at isa? flags 0x100 device npx0 at nexus? port IO_NPX irq 13 device sio0 at isa? port IO_COM1 flags 0x10 irq 4 device sio1 at isa? port IO_COM2 irq 3 device ppc0 at isa? irq 7 device ppbus # Parallel port bus (required) device ppi # Parallel port interface device device miibus # MII bus support device dc # DEC/Intel 21143 and various workalikes pseudo-device loop # Network loopback pseudo-device ether # Ethernet support pseudo-device pty # Pseudo-ttys (telnet etc) pseudo-device gzip #Exec gzipped a.out's pseudo-device vn #Vnode driver (turns a file into a device) pseudo-device bpf #Berkeley packet filter device pcm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Daniel Frazier <dfrazier@magpage.com> Tel: 302-239-5900 Ext. 231 System Administrator Fax: 302-239-3909 MAGPAGE, We Power the Internet WWW: http://www.magpage.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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