out of swap space

Charles Swiger cswiger at mac.com
Thu Jul 7 21:32:17 GMT 2005


On Jul 7, 2005, at 4:57 PM, Alexander Polakov wrote:
> swap_pager: out of swap space
> swap_pager_getswapspace(2): failed
> pid 508 (Xorg), uid 0, was killed: out of swap space
> pid 641 (fluxbox), uid 1001: exited on signal 6 (core dumped)

Well, bad things happen if the system runs out of swap.  Do you have  
enough RAM and swap configured for the tasks you run?  What does top  
or "vmstat -s" look like?

-- 
-Chuck



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