Hello!
On Sat, 4 Mar 2006, Peter Jeremy wrote:
4.11-RELEASE) such as "make buildwolrd". After successful completion of
this procedure I issued "rm -rf /usr/obj/usr" and got the following
(single) message from kernel:
Mar 3 11:05:32 test3 /kernel: swap_pager_getswapspace: failed
Does anybody know whether it's harmless?
It depends what you mean by "harmless". The kernel tried to allocate
swap space for a process and failed. The kernel tries to recover by
killing the largest process (which should also be syslog'd). I'm
In my case, not a single process has been killed. And I suppose
that I know why...
surprised that you got this on the "rm" as the buildworld should
create bigger processes. If the "rm" was killed, you will need to
re-issue it to actually delete the files.
... because I think it wasn't a process which requested a page - it
apparently was a softupdates code. Do you really believe that RELENG_4
lacks real memory for "make buildworld" on i386 with 256Mb RAM? I've issued
"make buildworld" and "make buildkernel" several times, just to be sure. Every
such a test was successful. My diagnostics (swap_pager_getswapspace: failed)
occurs only once per OS run (it doesn't repeat until I reboot by box), and
even with vm.swap_enabled=0! So I think it's harmless, I just want to confirm
it w/o digging OS vm code.
Sincerely, Dmitry
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