Date: Sat, 2 May 1998 11:56:25 +0200 (CEST) From: Andre Albsmeier <andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de> To: saken@rmta.ml.org (Scott A. Kenney) Cc: berend@pobox.com, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: swap_pager: out of swap space, only power off did help Message-ID: <199805020956.LAA15412@internal> In-Reply-To: <19980502004341.14009@rmta.ml.org> from "Scott A. Kenney" at "May 2, 98 00:43:41 am"
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> According to Berend de Boer: > > > My quite stable freebsd stable halted today with "swap_pager: out of swap > > space". Only a reboot did help. But within minutes this message came again. > > Help! I'm running stable from a few weeks ago. > > > > 1. What has happened? > > > > As far as I know someone send me a large (3MB) message, which sendmail > > spooled to /var/spool/mqueue (at least there I found it) and procmail tried > > to deliver it, without luck however. But /var/mail still did have 15MB > > free, so what could be wrong? This is a 16MB machine with a 40MB swap > > space. > > This is a well known problem with procmail on FreeBSD. > The attached message contains a patch for procmail which solves the > problem. Since I now know a couple of people being happy with procmail and huge messages, maybe we should include my patch in the procmail port. I think, the best would be somwhere in a README-2.2 file or as a note being echoed during the make process. Or, if we are keen, we could put it into the patches directory... -Andre To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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