From owner-freebsd-current Thu Jan 20 9: 4:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from apollo.backplane.com (apollo.backplane.com [216.240.41.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF1F915328 for ; Thu, 20 Jan 2000 09:04:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon@apollo.backplane.com) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by apollo.backplane.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id JAA51979; Thu, 20 Jan 2000 09:04:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 09:04:08 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Dillon Message-Id: <200001201704.JAA51979@apollo.backplane.com> To: chrw Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: swap_pager_getswapspace: failed (4.0-CURRENT) (fwd) References: Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG :Helllo, : :I am experiencing problems regarding the swap handler. : :I am running 4.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT #10 : :The box is running apache-1.3.9, cucipop v1.32, and sendmail 8.9.3, and :also runs as an NFS client. : :Kernel is configured with 512 MAXUSERS, swap device is 400MB with :real memory = 134201344 (131056K bytes) :avail memory = 126275584 (123316K bytes) : :Apache is is configured to run with :MinSpareServers 50 MaxSpareServers 100 : :The box runs without any problems, and not using very much swap space for :about 24 hours, then suddenly it generates the error message: : :Jan 19 13:03:03 hostname /kernel: swap_pager_getswapspace: failed : :and about 1 min later, it stops responding to any service requests. : :I would be gratefull for any hints or suggestions concerning what might :cause this fatal problem and possible solutions. : :CW It sounds like some process is running away on you. I recommend you open up several windows and run various system monitoring utilities in each one. 'vmstat 1', 'systat -vm 1', 'top', and so forth. -Matt Matthew Dillon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message