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From: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net>
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Subject: Re: swap usage
In-Reply-To: <199708300314.WAA29270@toybox.cc.iastate.edu> from Kent Vander Velden at "Aug 29, 97 10:14:58 pm"
To: graphix@toybox.cc.iastate.edu (Kent Vander Velden)
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 1997 22:58:59 -0500 (EST)
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Kent Vander Velden said:
> 
>   What am I missing here?  
> 
> FreeBSD-CVS|Fri10:11pm} pstat -s
> Device      1K-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity  Type
> /dev/sd1b      262500    40860   221576    16%    Interleaved
> 
> Aug 29 16:32:08 pseudo /kernel: swap_pager: out of swap space
> Aug 29 16:32:19 pseudo /kernel: swap_pager: out of swap space
> 
> (on and on)
> 
>   There certainly seems to be enough swap...
> 
Something is wrong.  Tell me about the application(s) that you are running,
esp big ones.

John