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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!usc!chi-news.cic.net!news.depaul.edu!boxotrix.it-ias.depaul.edu!root 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 Lines: 29 Message-ID: <5j0b6g$d9j$1@news.depaul.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: boxotrix.it-ias.depaul.edu Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:39104 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 work: jleonard@condor.depaul.edu home: trixter@mcs.com For a new experience, try http://www.cdrom.com/pub/demos/hornet/html/demos.html