Bug 22847

On Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 12:28:26PM -0800, jfa@mail.sonet.pt wrote:

> >Description:
> The Kernel of FreeBSD 4.1.1, is to use swap, where the free server has memory, and passed one week, the server crash for:
> 
> zeus /kernel: swap_pager_getswapspace: failed
> zeus /kernel: pid 89825 (BitchX-1.0c17), uid 1029, was killed: out of swap space
> zeus /kernel: pid 95115 (cron), uid 0, was killed: out of swap space

These messages occur when you run out of swap space. Usually it kills
the largest running process, so I'm slightly suprised that cron got
killed. Can you watch for either lots of small processes building up,
or one or two large processes?

	David.

All my servers who are with FreeBSD 4.1.1, they are to occupy Swap, and they
have free memory sufficiently. The ones that they are with FreeBSD 4.0 are
not to use none swap!

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----- Original Message -----
From: "David Malone" <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>
To: <jfa@mail.sonet.pt>
Cc: <freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2000 8:37 PM
Subject: Re: kern/22847: FreeBSD 4.1.1 - Kernel problems


> On Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 12:28:26PM -0800, jfa@mail.sonet.pt wrote:
>
> > >Description:
> > The Kernel of FreeBSD 4.1.1, is to use swap, where the free server has
memory, and passed one week, the server crash for:
> >
> > zeus /kernel: swap_pager_getswapspace: failed
> > zeus /kernel: pid 89825 (BitchX-1.0c17), uid 1029, was killed: out of
swap space
> > zeus /kernel: pid 95115 (cron), uid 0, was killed: out of swap space
>
> These messages occur when you run out of swap space. Usually it kills
> the largest running process, so I'm slightly suprised that cron got
> killed. Can you watch for either lots of small processes building up,
> or one or two large processes?
>
> David.
>

Fix:

The fix of this problem, as available here: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=19714

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Best Regards,

Jorge Filipe Andrade
___________________________
SONET - Serviços Internet, Lda
http://www.sonet.pt

Comment 4 dwmalone 2000-11-16 00:50:03 UTC

State Changed
From-To: open->closed

Submitter found solution in PR 19714.