Subject: Re: How to add swap file -- Re: Network slowness
To: Toru Nishimura <nisimura@is.aist-nara.ac.jp>
From: Adam Fritzler <afritz@iname.com>
List: port-pmax
Date: 01/12/1998 21:36:36
At 09:54 AM 1/13/98 +0900, you wrote:
>In article<199801120425.XAA23727@ren.globecomm.net>
>How much did you reserve swap space?  MIPS architecture requires much
>RAM than loosy CISC decendent.  NetBSD allows you to add swap space as

I've got 132mb.

>    (I donno why /dev/?? is shown here)

That apparently means it's a swap file instead of partition.

>FYI, my MAXINE has 40MB RAM and 36MB+ dedicated swap space and I
>routinely use it for NetBSD kernel build with 4 parallel make (make -j 4).
>It seldom uses swap space, and runs as CPU/RAM speed. 

Something must be terribly wrong with my machine then, since it was running
out of space with 24mb + 132mb.  Is there something else the "panic:
vm_fork: no more kernel virtual memory" could mean?  Should I compile
another kernel ASAP, instead of using a GENERIC one?

Now, after I added some more swap, I get these in my log:

Jan 12 20:19:08 eagle /netbsd: swap_pager_clean: clean of page 6b6000 failed
Jan 12 20:19:08 eagle /netbsd: swap_pager_clean: clean of page 7a7000 failed
Jan 12 20:19:08 eagle /netbsd: swap_pager_clean: clean of page af4000 failed
Jan 12 20:19:08 eagle /netbsd: swap_pager_clean: clean of page afd000 failed
Jan 12 20:19:09 eagle /netbsd: swap_pager_clean: clean of page a72000 failed
Jan 12 20:19:09 eagle /netbsd: swap_pager_clean: clean of page ada000 failed
Jan 12 20:19:09 eagle /netbsd: swap_pager_clean: clean of page 1780000 failed
Jan 12 20:19:09 eagle /netbsd: swap_pager_clean: clean of page b0c000 failed
Jan 12 20:19:09 eagle /netbsd: swap_pager_clean: clean of page b87000 failed
Jan 12 20:19:09 eagle /netbsd: swap_pager_clean: clean of page ac0000 failed
Jan 12 20:19:09 eagle /netbsd: swap_pager_clean: clean of page fe5000 failed
Jan 12 20:19:09 eagle /netbsd: swap_pager_clean: clean of page 16f8000 failed
Jan 12 20:19:10 eagle /netbsd: swap_pager_clean: clean of page 16dd000 failed
(more ad nauseum)

What's going on here?  Is there something more drastically wrong with my
setup than a lack of RAM?

Thanks,
Adam
(  Adam Fritzler   afritz@iname.com                            )
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