out of swap?

[Kris Kennaway]

On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 11:14:29AM -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote:
> Hey people,
> 
> I'm running 5.4, and I just found a ton of these in my daily security run.
> 
> kanga.digitaltorque.ca kernel log messages:
> > swap_pager_getswapspace(6): failed
> > swap_pager_getswapspace(5): failed
> > swap_pager_getswapspace(3): failed
> > swap_pager_getswapspace(3): failed
> > swap_pager_getswapspace(3): failed
> > swap_pager_getswapspace(4): failed
> 
> I'm running jdk 1.4.2 and tomcat 5.5.9, and I noticed that it was down
> this morning. My swap is fine now.
> 
> [msoulier at kanga ~]$ swapinfo
> Device          1K-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity
> /dev/ad0s1b        482120    66268   415852    14%
> 
> So I'm assuming that there's a memory leak in jdk 1.4.2, and it slowly
> used up all my memory.
> 
> Sound right?

Or you just don't have enough virtual memory (RAM + swap) to handle
your peak loads.  This is perhaps more likely.

Kris
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