swap_pager_getswapspace: failed

Randy Pratt rpratt1950 at earthlink.net
Thu Jul 1 07:13:47 PDT 2004


I had an odd thing happen yesterday that I've never seen.  Here's the
info from /var/log/messages:

Jun 30 11:06:22 kt /kernel: swap_pager_getswapspace: failed
Jun 30 11:06:23 kt last message repeated 26 times
Jun 30 11:07:27 kt last message repeated 25 times
Jun 30 11:12:23 kt last message repeated 44 times
Jun 30 11:12:23 kt /kernel: pid 876 (opera), uid 1001, was killed: out of swap space

Eventually things got worse.  I tried to switch to another
workspace and lost 4 out of 7 workspaces.  The applications that
were there were still running.  After manually killing the 
processes, I rebooted and things returned to normal.

I did see some discussion in the -current archives where it was
thought it might be some XFree86 memory leak issues.  A google
search for "swap_pager_getswapspace failed 2004" turned up:

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&threadm=cak3qd%24kv3%241%40FreeBSD.csie.NCTU.edu.tw&rnum=3&prev=/groups%3Fhl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26q%3Dswap_pager_getswapspace%2Bfailed%2B2004%26btnG%3DSearch%26meta%3Dgroup%253Dmailing.freebsd.*

>From uname -a:
4.10-STABLE FreeBSD 4.10-STABLE #0: Sat Jun  5 15:39:24 EDT 2004

>From dmesg:
real memory  = 536805376 (524224K bytes)
avail memory = 516714496 (504604K bytes)

>From swapinfo:
Device          1K-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity  Type
/dev/ad0s1b       1032624      304  1032320     0%    Interleaved

I update ports daily so everything is at the latest versions
available.

If this happens again, what kind of information should I collect
so that it might be of value?

Best regards,

Randy
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