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RE: swapon error msgs

My guess is that a process on the system had a memory leak and started
to starve the system of RAM. The key to finding the solution is first
to use ps(1) to locate the process sucking up all the RAM.

--Michael

> -----Original Message-----
> From: email@hidden
> [mailto:email@hidden] On Behalf Of Stu Duncan
> Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2003 6:15 AM
> To: email@hidden
> Subject: swapon error msgs
>
>
> Anyone know what this means?
>
> May 8 08:42:08 WorkServer mach_kernel: (default pager): [KERNEL]: no
> space in available paging segments; swapon suggested
> May 8 08:42:08 WorkServer last message repeated 34 times
> May 8 08:42:08 WorkServer mach_kernel: fault pager): [KERNEL]: no
> space in available paging segments; swapon suggested
> May 8 08:42:08 WorkServer mach_kernel: (default pager): [KERNEL]: no
> space in available paging segments; swapon suggested
> May 8 08:42:08 WorkServer last message repeated 29 times
> May 8 08:42:08 WorkServer mach_kernel: pager): [KERNEL]: no
> space in
> available paging segments; swapon suggested
> May 8 08:42:08 WorkServer mach_kernel: (default pager): [KERNEL]: no
> space in available paging segments; swapon suggested
> May 8 08:42:08 WorkServer last message repeated 47 times
> May 8 08:42:08 WorkServer mach_kernel: default pager): [KERNEL]: no
> space in available paging segments; swapon suggested
> May 8 08:42:08 WorkServer mach_kernel: (default pager): [KERNEL]: no
> space in available paging segments; swapon suggested
> May 8 08:42:08 WorkServer last message repeated 46 times
>
> And every once in a while:
> May 8 08:48:33 WorkServer mach_kernel: Warning: No physical memory
> suitable for pageout or reclaim, pageout thread temporarily going to
> sleep
>
> There were literally thousands of these messages. The server had
> crashed hard, wouldn't respond to anything except ping while
> generating
> these messages, not even ssh. I had to hard restart it.
>
> The server has 1 gig of ram and ~70Gb of free diskspace, and was only
> up for about 2 hours. No one was logged into the server. I'm
> thinking
> a bad ram chip. Anyone else have any ideas?
>
> TIA,
>
> Stu Duncan
> Mac Administrator
> The Education Center, Inc
> 336-851-8308
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