System Crash (freebsd+clamscan) !

[Steve Bertrand]

On Sun, 2003-12-21 at 23:46, Bikrant wrote:
> On Monday 22 December 2003 03:45, Derrick Ryalls wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > I'm running qmail+qmail-scanner+clamscan on freebsd 4.9. The
> > > system is P-IV
> > > with 1 GB of RAM and 1 GB Swap.
> > > My system crashed twice with the following message in my syslog.
> > >
> > > Dec 21 11:19:19 qmail-scanner /kernel: pid 57024 (clamscan),
> > > uid 1009, was
> > > killed: out of swap space
> > > Dec 21 11:19:23 qmail-scanner last message repeated 6 times
> > > Dec 21 11:20:14 qmail-scanner /kernel:
> > > swap_pager_getswapspace: failed Dec 21 11:20:16 qmail-scanner
> > > last message repeated 516 times Dec 21 11:20:16 qmail-scanner
> > > /kernel: pid 57204 (clamscan), uid 1009, was
> > > killed: out of swap space
> >
> > What is the output of:
> > %df -H
> >
> > Also, check the top section of top
> >
> > Here is mine:
> >
> > 45 processes:  3 running, 42 sleeping
> > CPU states:  0.0% user,  0.0% nice,  0.0% system,  0.0% interrupt,  100%
> > idle
> > Mem: 113M Active, 253M Inact, 88M Wired, 13M Cache, 60M Buf, 32M Free
> > Swap: 512M Total, 100K Used, 512M Free
> > ^^^^^
> > list of swap space usage.
> Thanks a lot for the response.
> I've been regularly monitoring the swap usage and I never saw anything above 
> 10MB. Unfortunately I couldn't access my system when it crashed!!
> Now i've increased the swap space to 2GB.
> 

You may want to increase the amount of physical RAM as well, so swap
isn't used as frequently.

Steve

> regards,
> Bikrant
> >
> >
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