<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 6:31 AM, Dake K. Odzangba <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:odzangba@gmail.com">odzangba@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">On Sunday 08 February 2009 13:36:33 lee wrote:</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">> Brian McKee wrote:</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">> > On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 6:30 AM, Dake K. Odzangba <<a href="mailto:odzangba@gmail.com" target="_blank">odzangba@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">> >> Hello, I do not have a swap partition (or file) because I've got 2GB of</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">> >> physical ram. Yet the output of free tells me:</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">> ></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">> > What's in your fstab? and what is the output of 'swapon -s' ?</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">> ></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">> > Swap isn't evil you know, just because you have 2 gig of ram doesn't</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">> > mean swap wouldn't be useful, and having swap is better than not</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">> > having swap.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">> ></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">> > I'd set up a gig or two of swap in a file or partition if I was you.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">> ></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">> > Brian</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">> It is always better to have a swap partition than not, I have 4gigs of</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">> ram and still run a swap and have used it on more than occasion.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">My fstab looks like so:</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">> proc /proc proc defaults 0 0</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">> # /dev/sda1</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">> UUID=e1e58f09-45f4-4cd5-aa37-22c75f3a0e8c / ext3 relatime,errors=remount-ro 0 1 </p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">> # /dev/sda3</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">> UUID=34a9d5e0-b42f-48c3-802c-217ddbc33169 /media/silo ext3 relatime 0 2 </p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">> /dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0 </p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">> /dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">And swapon -s says:</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">> Filename Type Size Used Priority</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">> /dev/ramzswap0 partition 516080 24628 100</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">On Sunday 08 February 2009 14:56:19 Smoot Carl-Mitchell wrote:</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">> Your problem may be a lack of swap space. The vmalloc error messages</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">> you see are referring to the kernel virtual memory allocator. You are</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">> either exceeding the size limit for kernel virtual memory or as you try</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">> to use more kernel virtual memory, you have run out of physical memory</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">> and there is no place to page out idle user pages to make room for the</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">> kernel vm pages. kernel vm pages cannot be paged and must remain locked</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">> in physical memory.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">> I'd try adding a swap file first and see if that resolves the problem.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">Now that I realize what is going on, I'm thinking of bumping my ram up to 4gb and adding swap but I still do not like the fact that the system went ahead to create and _use_ swap space even after I chose not to use swap. A sensible reminder in my logs (or even a pop up) that I need swap space would have sufficed... especially since compcache is choking on whatever it's choking on. </p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">Thanks for the help. :)</p>
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