swap_pager: out of swap space during gnome_upgrade.sh

[Quake Lee]

Marco van Lienen wrote:

>I have -CURRENT as of 03/14 running on a dell latitude d600.
>This was un upgrade from 5.3-STABLE.
>The laptop has 512Mb RAM and 1Gb of swap space.
>
>root at yoda <~> 569# df -h
>Filesystem     Size    Used   Avail Capacity  Mounted on
>/dev/ad0s1a    124M     60M     54M    53%    /
>devfs          1.0K    1.0K      0B   100%    /dev
>/dev/ad0s1e     16G    8.5G    6.2G    58%    /usr
>/dev/ad0s1d    989M     62M    848M     7%    /var
>
>root at yoda <~> 569# swapinfo
>Device          1K-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity
>/dev/ad0s1b       1048576  10395282 1022756    99%
>
>Today I'm trying to upgrade all glib/gtk/gnome libs following as per 20050312
>(/usr/ports/UPDATING).
>
>Reasonably early during the 4th and final stage of the gnome_upgrade.sh script (GNOME_UPGRADE_SH_VER=2.10-3
>(during an openoffice-1.1 build)) /var/log/messages gets flooded with the following messages:
>
>Mar 16 12:47:39 yoda kernel: pid 96533 (sort), uid 0, was killed: out of swap
>space
>Mar 16 12:47:40 yoda kernel: swap_pager: out of swap space
>Mar 16 12:47:40 yoda kernel: swap_pager_getswapspace(16): failed
>
>Mar 16 12:47:40 yoda kernel: pid 96611 (sort), uid 0, was killed: out of swap
>space
>Mar 16 12:47:41 yoda kernel: swap_pager: out of swap space
>Mar 16 12:47:41 yoda kernel: swap_pager_getswapspace(16): failed
>
>It always is referring to the sort(1) process.
>
>I've not seen this behavior before during the 2 days running -CURRENT and
>having upgraded several ports thru portupgrade(1).
>
>Hopefully someone can point me in the right direction.
>
>Marco
>
>  
>
me too. I think it is the problems of /usr/bin/make, maybe have some 
memory leak.
because I have 512MB memory and 1GB swap, but got out of swap too. I 
sugguest you
build a new world or update your /usr/bin/make.