Re: out of swap space

From: Jon Dama <jd_at_ugcs.caltech.edu>
Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2005 14:57:01 -0700 (PDT)
It is also it is worthwhile to remember that on i386 you can use
roughly >20GB of swap space.  swap + ram need not sum to less than 4GB
common misunderstandings aside.

If your memory load warrants larger swap allocations, you should just bump
that number up.

-Jon


On Thu, 7 Jul 2005, Charles Swiger wrote:

> On Jul 7, 2005, at 4:57 PM, Alexander Polakov wrote:
> > swap_pager: out of swap space
> > swap_pager_getswapspace(2): failed
> > pid 508 (Xorg), uid 0, was killed: out of swap space
> > pid 641 (fluxbox), uid 1001: exited on signal 6 (core dumped)
>
> Well, bad things happen if the system runs out of swap.  Do you have
> enough RAM and swap configured for the tasks you run?  What does top
> or "vmstat -s" look like?
>
> --
> -Chuck
>
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