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Date:      Sat, 7 Nov 1998 09:16:27 -0500 (EST)
From:      John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu>
To:        Alexander Litvin <archer@lucky.net>
Cc:        Brian Feldman <green@unixhelp.org>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: The infamous dying daemons bug
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9811070904250.482-100000@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199811071314.PAA23544@grape.carrier.kiev.ua>

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On Sat, 7 Nov 1998, Alexander Litvin wrote:

> In article <Pine.BSF.4.05.9811061814370.6415-100000@janus.syracuse.net> you wrote:
> BF> I haven't had this bug. And a 3.0 box at school doesn't have it either...
> BF> it's not as common as you think.
> 
> Have you beaten your systems to "swap_pager: out of swap space"?

The meaning of this messages is reasonably clean and I have seen
it before (although not since upgrading to 3.0 and meeting the
dying daemons bug), but I have on occasion seen:

  smap_pager: suggest more swap space: 125 MB

I assume it is a warning that I'm about to run out, but what does
the 125MB mean?  I have 128MB of swap.  If it means that 125MB is
used, it would be much less cryptic to qualify it along the lines
of "only 3MB free" or "125MB out of 128MB used" or "98% used" or
"2% free". To be consistent with "out of swap space", maybe it
should say "almost out of swap space".

So, what is the correct interpretation of this message, and the
125MB in particular?

-john


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