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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.sdsmt.edu!tau.uac.net!uhog.mit.edu!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!zrz.TU-Berlin.DE!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,tw.bbs.comp.386bsd Subject: Re: vm_pageout, Why ??? Date: 14 May 1996 23:28:31 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 19 Message-ID: <4nb4uv$20d@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4n945k$hrn@voyager.iii.org.tw> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E serge@autocar.org.tw (HSIAO Hsuei-cheng) wrote: > I use MFS options in my kernel, it works fine, but this morning, > it gave me a message like this. > > vm_pageout, out of swap > > Why ? MFS is backed to the device you're giving it as the mount device, usually identical to the primary swap area. So if you try to mount a too large MFS onto a too small swap area, you're asking for trouble. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)