On 9/6/06, Vincent van Scherpenseel <mailinglists@vanscherpenseel.nl> wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> Since last week I'm having problems with processes getting Killed out of
> nowhere on my NetBSD 1.6.2 machine. I searched the /var/log/messages log
> and learnt that this is due to the machine running out of swap.
>
> When I run 'top' it shows me this:
> Memory: 38M Act, 23M Inact, 1792K Wired, 5016K Exec, 25M File, 10M Free
> Swap: 256M Total, 256M Used, 336K Free
>
> dmesg shows:
> total memory = 97904 KB
> avail memory = 87520 KB
>
> There is 1 stick of 64mb SD-RAM in the machine and 1 stick of 32mb.
> Is my assumption right that the memory is most probably faulty?
>


It's probably not a bad assumption, but having all of these different
reported sizes is normal on netbsd.  The whole memory thing is a
little odd.  :)

It could be that you're actually running out of swap and you simply
need more of it.  (why are you using so much swap, anyway?)