Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2002 21:53:27 -0600 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: "Russell A. Khurshudian" <hesiod@fathom.diluvian.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Swap/Memory problem w/ portupgrade & Ruby Message-ID: <20020103035327.GA2738@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <20020102210909.A28051@fathom.diluvian.net> References: <20020102210909.A28051@fathom.diluvian.net>
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In the last episode (Jan 02), Russell A. Khurshudian said: > Whenever i run portupgrade or `pkgdb -F` the system seems to slow > down. When i ran top to check the system memory information the swap > space increased up to the maximum (250MB in my case) and the memory > usage went up to ~ 110Mb. All processes were then killed by the > kernel with a message that read "out of swap space". I tried deleting > and reinstalling portupgrade, ruby, and all of its dependencies. Has > anyone encountered this before? Any suggestions? Thanks. well, that shouldn't happen :) You might want to try deleting /var/db/pkg/pkgdb.db and let pkgdb rebuild it from scratch, and also set your 'datasize' resource limit in /etc/login.conf to keep one process from running the entire system out of memory. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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