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Date:      Wed, 3 Jul 1996 11:44:45 GMT
From:      James Raynard <fqueries@jraynard.demon.co.uk>
To:        bala@cst.com.au
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Majordomo problem (help)
Message-ID:  <199607031144.LAA01084@jraynard.demon.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <199607030909.TAA01628@skeg.cst.com.au> (message from Bala Periasamy on Wed, 3 Jul 1996 19:09:55 %2B1000 (EST))

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>>>>> Bala Periasamy <bala@cst.com.au> writes:
> 
> Running FreeBSD 2.1.0
> Majordomo 1.93
> 
> syslog error:
> swap_pager: out of space
> Process 192 killed by vm_fault -- out of swap
> pid 196: perl: uid 54: exited on signal 11

As it suggests, the system has run out of swap - at a minimum, you
should have 2MB of swap for every MB of RAM, more if you run pigs like
Netscape or Emacs.

You can use 'ps -vax' to identify which processes are using a lot of
virtual memory.

-- 
James Raynard, Edinburgh, Scotland
james@jraynard.demon.co.uk
http://www.freebsd.org/~jraynard/



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