swap zone exhausted, increase kern.maxswzone

[John-Mark Gurney]

Marc G. Fournier wrote this message on Sat, May 05, 2007 at 13:15 -0300:
> - --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'

A tunable doesn't need to exist in the sysctl domain...  simply add it
to /boot/loader.conf as documented in conf/NOTES or defaults/loader.conf...

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