On Tue, 27 Jan 2004 20:54:41 +0100 Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
wrote:

>On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 11:00:06AM +1000, George Michaelson wrote:
>> I decided the "2x memory for swap" rule probably didn't apply any more,
>> and made my system have 128mb swap for 256mb memory. Until today, that
>is.> 
>> last night, moving a 1.5Gb ghost image in via ssh, with some local
>folder> activity in email and a browser, I had ls processes crap out
>with:> 
>> Jan 26 18:50:00 dhcppc1 /netbsd: UVM: pid 1424 (ls), uid 101 killed:
>> 	 out of swap
>> 
>> indeed top showed that the Swap utilization was extreme.
>
>What did it report for memory ? especially the Exec, File and Free fields
>? You may need to adjust some uvm parameters for your workload ...

long gone info. But I will try and capture if/when it happens again.

-George

>
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>Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
>     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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