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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!agate!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!newshost.convex.com!news.onramp.net!home!betts From: betts@onramp.net (Jeff Betts) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Needed: Diagnosis of syslog message Date: Sun, 28 Jul 1996 23:57:17 UNDEFINED Organization: OnRamp Technologies; ISP; Dallas/Ft Worth/Houston, TX USA Lines: 25 Message-ID: <betts.198.294EDD70@onramp.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: stemmons41.onramp.net X-Newsreader: Trumpet for Windows [Version 1.0 Rev B final beta #1] One of my FreeBSD-2.1-R boxes crashed today after months of stability. If it persists, I'll write down the trap info from the console, but I did not do that today. I was forced to press reset. Everything seems to have survived despite the 'volume not properly dismounted' messages. Checking /var/log/messages revealed the following: Jul 28 01:29:00 rob /kernel: swap_pager: out of space Jul 28 01:30:00 rob /kernel: pid 27208: cron: uid 0: exited on signal 11 Jul 28 01:30:00 rob /kernel: Process 27209 killed by vm_fault -- out of swap The last message repeated 9,637 times! (according to grep and wc) System is a Cyrix 486-DX2-80 w/ 16meg RAM. Swap partition (oops, is that a slice? :-) is whatever doce recommended (RAM * 4?). Not certain what all was happening at the time, but I had previously *successfully* created a couple of big (30 meg) gzipped tarballs on the local drive from files read from an nfs mount to another FreeBSD-2.1-R box. Any ideas appreciated ! Jeff jbetts@netpath.com