Weird message in dmesg

Sergey Kandaurov pluknet at freebsd.org
Mon Aug 27 08:26:50 UTC 2012


On 27 August 2012 10:48, OriS <site.freebsd at orientalsensation.com> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I have a strange warning message in dmesg:
>
>     warning: total configured swap (15728640 pages) exceeds maximum
> recommended amount (22369984 pages).
>     warning: increase kern.maxswzone or reduce amount of swap.
>
> (The configured pages are actually less than maximum)
>
> The value of kern.maxswzone in /boot/loader.conf is:
>
>     kern.maxswzone=201326592
>
> Anyone knows what's going on?!

I think there is a typo. Should be:

Index: /usr/src/sys/vm/swap_pager.c
===================================================================
--- /usr/src/sys/vm/swap_pager.c        (revision 239722)
+++ /usr/src/sys/vm/swap_pager.c        (working copy)
@@ -2135,7 +2135,7 @@ swapon_check_swzone(unsigned long npages)
        if (npages > maxpages / 2) {
                printf("warning: total configured swap (%lu pages) "
                    "exceeds maximum recommended amount (%lu pages).\n",
-                   npages, maxpages);
+                   npages, maxpages / 2);
                printf("warning: increase kern.maxswzone "
                    "or reduce amount of swap.\n");
                return (-1);

-- 
wbr,
pluknet


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