Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 09:22:59 -0500 From: Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com> To: Paul Halliday <paul.halliday@gmail.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Looking for troubleshooting tips. Message-ID: <6201873e0910270722h78abc53dneac85ce29553e3bf@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <2dab70a30910270654j79c3627bp2f2af88894dce2f2@mail.gmail.com> References: <2dab70a30910270654j79c3627bp2f2af88894dce2f2@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 8:54 AM, Paul Halliday <paul.halliday@gmail.com>wrote: > I shift deleted my inbox and lost all of the original replies :( > > anyway... I have another sensor that just started to exhibit this same > behavior. This time though, I have some more info: > > swap_pager_getswapspace(4): failed > swap_pager_getswapspace(16): failed > swap_pager_getswapspace(16): failed > swap_pager_getswapspace(2): failed > pid 75157 (flow-report), uid 1001, was killed: out of swap space > > What made me notice this time was the zabbix (http://www.zabbix.com/) > agent on this host kept bumping online/offline. So it looks like we > are loaded enough to affect other processes as well. > > Is this just a matter of adding more ram? 1. This is what I would do provided 3 is explored appropriately > Or do I increase the swap space? 2. This works too, but keep in mind swap space is orders of magnitude slower than RAM. > Or is there another issue here; I have never ran out of swap space before? > 3. Could be a runaway process/memory leaking consuming all available resources. If that is the case 1 and 2 won't help so check this out first. > > Thanks. > Please don't top-post. -- Adam Vande More
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