Date: Mon, 5 Jul 1999 18:52:25 -0400 (EDT) From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> To: dsj@sylvester.dsj.net (David S. Jackson) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, dsj@sylvester.dsj.net Subject: Re: syslog errors Message-ID: <199907052252.SAA14981@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9907051421210.5537-100000@juno.dsj.net> from "David S. Jackson" at "Jul 5, 99 02:41:00 pm"
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David S. Jackson wrote, > Hi, > > I'm getting various errors on a new 3.1 installation on an old 486/66 w/ > 16MB RAM. I'd like to take the errors one at a time and explore the most > important first (hopefully): > > Jun 30 20:22:03 juno /kernel: swap_pager: out of swap space > Jun 30 20:22:27 juno /kernel: pid 12548 (sh), uid 0, was killed: out of > swap space > > > This looks like a particularly nasty one. :-> Here's a df of my > partitions: > > > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/wd0s1a 31743 22734 6470 78% / > /dev/wd0s1f 825055 741859 17192 98% /usr > /dev/wd0s1e 29751 4423 22948 16% /var > procfs 4 4 0 100% /proc You still have not told us how big your swap is. Output of swapinfo(8) please? > As a consequence of the above errors (I think), my machine locks up from > time to time. About once a week or so. No keyboard input accepted, no > mouse input accepted, can't move to a virtual console, can't telnet in. ^^^^^ > When I try and telnet in, I get "no route to host" messages, as though > the box doesn't exist on my home network. Wow, you're running X on this thing? No wonder your swapping like that. > Does this call for a reinstall at this point? I fail to see what that would solve unless you are planning to expand the swap space. > The other related problem > is that I have great problems trying to compile stuff. > > Jun 30 22:50:17 juno /kernel: pid 17820 (cc1), uid 0: exited on signal 4 > (core dumped) > > I guess I run out of virtual memory at this point and compiles exit with > an error. Same happens with inetd-wrapped processes, like: > > Jul 2 01:00:02 juno /kernel: pid 724 (cron), uid 0: exited on signal 4 > (core dumped) > Jul 2 06:28:04 juno /kernel: pid 1169 (inetd), uid 0: exited on signal 4 > Jul 2 06:28:04 juno inetd[135]: /usr/libexec/comsat[1169]: exit status > 0x4 Hmmm... I'm not sure why these would be dying with a SIGILL. Might be some other problem. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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