Unexpected swap unmounts

[Kris Kennaway]

On Sat, Apr 16, 2005 at 02:57:34PM +0200, nocturnal wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I'm running a FreeBSD 4.11 system on my laptop, before that i had 4.10 
> and it's always worked great, i can't think of any new major changes 
> i've made or things i've done in the last months. Just recently it 
> started unmounting my swap partition for some reason, i get no warning 
> but i have started checking dmesg and see it happen. Only a reboot can 
> fix it, i've tried doing swapon /dev/partition as listed in fstab but it 
> returns invalid argument. One warning signal which i can see if i 
> continue using the laptop like usual for a while after the unmount is 
> that firefox gets killed, or any other heavy application. Of course this 
> is a cause of not having any swap mounted and dmesg tells me that.

> This is the message i get indicating that my swap partition is no longer 
> mounted.
> 
> swap_pager_getswapspace: failed

This doesn't mean that it's no longer mounted, but that it's out of
space.  Have you checked with 'swapinfo'?  It's much more likely that
you're just running out of swap.

Kris
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