swap zone exhausted, increase kern.maxswzone

Marc G. Fournier freebsd at hub.org
Sat May 5 16:15:51 UTC 2007


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- --On Saturday, May 05, 2007 12:06:55 -0400 Kris Kennaway <kris at obsecurity.org> 
wrote:

> On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 12:38:39PM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
>>
>> What exactly does that one mean?  I've searched Google, and all I'm finding
>> is  a pointer to swap_pager.c, but nothing else ...
>>
>> What does that one mean?  What would cause that sort of error?
>
> You need to increase the kern.maxswzone tunable to enable more space
> for active swap.

Apparently that doesn't exist on 6-STABLE, although its generating the error?

# sysctl kern.maxswzone
sysctl: unknown oid 'kern.maxswzone'

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