swap_pager_getswapspace: failed

[Kris Kennaway]

On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 10:15:06AM -0400, Randy Pratt wrote:
> I had an odd thing happen yesterday that I've never seen.  Here's the
> info from /var/log/messages:
> 
> Jun 30 11:06:22 kt /kernel: swap_pager_getswapspace: failed
> Jun 30 11:06:23 kt last message repeated 26 times
> Jun 30 11:07:27 kt last message repeated 25 times
> Jun 30 11:12:23 kt last message repeated 44 times
> Jun 30 11:12:23 kt /kernel: pid 876 (opera), uid 1001, was killed: out of swap space
> 
> Eventually things got worse.  I tried to switch to another
> workspace and lost 4 out of 7 workspaces.  The applications that
> were there were still running.  After manually killing the 
> processes, I rebooted and things returned to normal.

> If this happens again, what kind of information should I collect
> so that it might be of value?

Use top or ps to find out what process is using all the swap.

Kris
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