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From: root@boxotrix.it-ias.depaul.edu (Jim Leonard)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: I'm not out of swap, but system says so.  Help!
Date: 15 Apr 1997 16:42:56 GMT
Organization: DePaul University, Loop Campus, Chicago, IL, USA
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I received the disturbing email message from the system during the
nightly security run:

Subject: news security check output

news kernel log messages:
> swap_pager: out of swap space
> swap_pager: out of swap space

... etc.

But, every time I run top, I see this:

Mem: 28M Active, 6256K Inact, 15M Wired, 11M Cache, 7619K Buf, 840K Free
Swap: 64M Total, 15M Used, 49M Free, 23% Inuse

What am I missing?  It's not out of space; in fact, it's not even close.

The machine in question is a news server, actually... I can check the
nightly processes to see if something is using up swap.

If I need to add more swap, can I do so without repartitioning?  For
example, Linux (don't hurt me) can allocate swap in a file on an
existing partition.
-- 
Jim Leonard, SysAdmin at DePaul University and demofreak
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