From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 10 11:11:47 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E27D37B401 for ; Thu, 10 Apr 2003 11:11:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.clubplus.net (mail.clubplus.net [216.191.22.200]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A030943FB1 for ; Thu, 10 Apr 2003 11:11:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from david@skytrackercanada.com) Received: from skytrackercanada.com (cust29.209.188.66.dsl.accessv.com [209.188.66.29]) by mail.clubplus.net (8.12.7/8.12.7) with ESMTP id h3AIDp88028249 for ; Thu, 10 Apr 2003 14:13:52 -0400 Received: (from root@localhost) by skytrackercanada.com (8.12.6/8.12.6) id h3AIBbOY000682 for questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 10 Apr 2003 14:11:37 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from david@skytrackercanada.com) Received: from skytrackercanada.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by skytrackercanada.com (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h3AIBb1j000652 for ; Thu, 10 Apr 2003 14:11:37 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from david@skytrackercanada.com) Received: (from david@localhost) by skytrackercanada.com (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h3AIBbf0000651 for questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 10 Apr 2003 14:11:37 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from david) Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 14:11:37 -0400 From: David Banning To: questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20030410141136.A559@skytrackercanada.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i X-scanner: scanned by Inflex 0.1.5c - (http://www.inflex.co.za/) X-RAVMilter-Version: 8.4.2(snapshot 20021217) (mail) Subject: X dies - out of swap space X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 18:11:47 -0000 Apr 10 13:41:39 skytrackercanada /kernel: swap_pager_getswapspace: failed Apr 10 13:42:29 skytrackercanada last message repeated 79 times Apr 10 13:42:29 skytrackercanada last message repeated 16 times Apr 10 13:42:29 skytrackercanada /kernel: pid 355 (XFree86), uid 0, was killed: out of swap space All of a sudden, every few days, under no great load, X dies and I lose my keyboard. The rest of the machine runs fine. It is still serving web pages and I can telnet in, but I cannot control the console. A "ps ax" shows that indeed X is not running. I have searched the list for previous answers but I would like to find out why it is happening. The best suggestion I heard was to set datasize to 128M in .initrc or .xsession. BTW, where is the man page for those files? Any suggestion or info on the above subject would be helpful.