swap_pager_getswapspace: failed

[Chuck Swiger]

Spidey Knepscheld wrote:
> I am running FreeBSD & Exim as MTA on the same server I run Squid as a
> transperent proxy.The server is running very slow.I do have a type of
> DoS at moment.My server admin is on holiday.Amavis and the Virus
> Scanners seem to have stoped working so MyDoom & Netsky and what ever
> you can imagine is loose on the network.I get the following error on the
> monitor continiously : swap_pager_getswapspace: failed

I've seen some signs that squid leaks memory, consider shutting it down and 
restarting it:

/usr/local/etc/rc.d/squid.sh stop
/usr/local/etc/rc.d/squid.sh start

You might repeat the processes for the other services if that doesn't help, or 
even pretend it's a Windows box and reboot it :-), but the latter shouldn't be 
necessary if you figure out what it's doing and know enough to fix it. 
Looking at 'top' can also help.

-- 
-Chuck