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Date:      Mon, 06 May 2002 10:05:37 -0700
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
To:        Bogdan TARU <bgd@icomag.de>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: swap_pager_getswapspace: failed
Message-ID:  <3CD6B7E1.F1616DDE@mindspring.com>
References:  <20020506111950.T50903-100000@fw.cgn.icom>

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Bogdan TARU wrote:
>  (1 zillion x) swap_pager_getswapspace: failed
> 
>  Could you tell me why I do get this? We're talking about a very idle
> machine, used only for development (CVS + postgresql + about 16 httpd
> apaches -- MaxClients). RAM: 512, Swap 512. I've never seen more than 12MB
> of swap in use. And, more puzzling: why do I get this in sysctl, and not
> in a log?

See /var/log/messages and/or "dmesg" and/or look at your console.

The reason you get these messages is that you are out of kernel
virtual address space to provide mappings for swap.

512M + 512M = 1G... how big is your KVA?

-- Terry

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