Weird message in dmesg

[OriS]

Yup, that seems to be the issue...
I kept bumping up the value of kern.maxswzone until the warning disappeared.
Should be incorporated into sources I guess.

Thanks! :)

Noor

On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 10:26 AM, Sergey Kandaurov <pluknet at freebsd.org>wrote:

> On 27 August 2012 10:48, OriS <site.freebsd at orientalsensation.com> wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I have a strange warning message in dmesg:
> >
> >     warning: total configured swap (15728640 pages) exceeds maximum
> > recommended amount (22369984 pages).
> >     warning: increase kern.maxswzone or reduce amount of swap.
> >
> > (The configured pages are actually less than maximum)
> >
> > The value of kern.maxswzone in /boot/loader.conf is:
> >
> >     kern.maxswzone=201326592
> >
> > Anyone knows what's going on?!
>
> I think there is a typo. Should be:
>
> Index: /usr/src/sys/vm/swap_pager.c
> ===================================================================
> --- /usr/src/sys/vm/swap_pager.c        (revision 239722)
> +++ /usr/src/sys/vm/swap_pager.c        (working copy)
> @@ -2135,7 +2135,7 @@ swapon_check_swzone(unsigned long npages)
>         if (npages > maxpages / 2) {
>                 printf("warning: total configured swap (%lu pages) "
>                     "exceeds maximum recommended amount (%lu pages).\n",
> -                   npages, maxpages);
> +                   npages, maxpages / 2);
>                 printf("warning: increase kern.maxswzone "
>                     "or reduce amount of swap.\n");
>                 return (-1);
>
> --
> wbr,
> pluknet
>