On Sun, 14 Jan 2001 16:41:30 +1030, Matthew Thyer wrote:
> Sheldon, I'm not stupid.
Sorry to have come across like that.
Ciao,
Sheldon.
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On Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 04:41:30PM +1030, Matthew Thyer wrote:
> At the time the message occurred I had less than 6 MB usage in
> /tmp if that.
I believe that for `df' output. But what was the memory usage of the mfs
processes (using `ps')?
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In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Matt Dillon writes:
>MFS is very inefficient. I didn't fix that... it isn't possible to
>fix it without a lot of work.
The real fix is to make "struct buf" more object oriented, so that
instead of
bwrite(bp)
one does
bp->b_op[BOP_BWRITE](
:> No I want mfs to grow and shrink its filesystem dynamically.
:
:MFS has never done so. MFS is simply a UFS which uses (swap-backed)
:memory instead of a physical disk; it relies on the filesystem to
:avoid touching blocks that it doesn't need, and on the VM system to
:avoid wasting memory on
Sheldon Hearn wrote:
>
> On Sat, 13 Jan 2001 15:50:15 +1030, Matthew Thyer wrote:
>
> > > Then don't limit the size! :-)
> >
> > I dont. So what next ?
> >
> > Since I dont have much time for debugging FreeBSD, I stopped using
> > mfs instead.
>
> This is a very simple problem -- you're runnin
< said:
> No I want mfs to grow and shrink its filesystem dynamically.
MFS has never done so. MFS is simply a UFS which uses (swap-backed)
memory instead of a physical disk; it relies on the filesystem to
avoid touching blocks that it doesn't need, and on the VM system to
avoid wasting memory o
On Sat, 13 Jan 2001 15:50:15 +1030, Matthew Thyer wrote:
> > Then don't limit the size! :-)
>
> I dont. So what next ?
>
> Since I dont have much time for debugging FreeBSD, I stopped using
> mfs instead.
This is a very simple problem -- you're running out of space. If you
can't do anythin
Sheldon Hearn wrote:
>
> On Sat, 13 Jan 2001 01:46:46 +1030, Matthew Thyer wrote:
>
> > > The way it is now is the way it's always been. Think about what you
> > > mean when you say "dynamic swap user". You want mfs to use more swap
> > > than you have? :-)
> >
> > No I want mfs to grow and sh
On Sat, 13 Jan 2001 01:46:46 +1030, Matthew Thyer wrote:
> > The way it is now is the way it's always been. Think about what you
> > mean when you say "dynamic swap user". You want mfs to use more swap
> > than you have? :-)
>
> No I want mfs to grow and shrink its filesystem dynamically.
T
Sheldon Hearn wrote:
>
> On Fri, 12 Jan 2001 22:01:03 +1030, Matthew Thyer wrote:
>
> > This seems a bit of a pain.
> >
> > Is there anyway to go back (if I'm correct) to a dynamic swap user.
> > I suppose I'm talking about a real tmpfs ?
>
> The way it is now is the way it's always been. Thin
On Fri, 12 Jan 2001 22:01:03 +1030, Matthew Thyer wrote:
> This seems a bit of a pain.
>
> Is there anyway to go back (if I'm correct) to a dynamic swap user.
> I suppose I'm talking about a real tmpfs ?
The way it is now is the way it's always been. Think about what you
mean when you say "d
Sheldon Hearn wrote:
>
> On Fri, 12 Jan 2001 00:54:40 +1030, Matthew Thyer wrote:
>
> > > /boot/kernel/kernel: swap_pager_getswapspace: failed
> > >
> > > This seems to have started in the last week.
> > >
> >
> > I saw the same problem until I stopped using mfs on /tmp.
> >
> > Stop using mfs f
Sheldon Hearn wrote:
>
> On Fri, 12 Jan 2001 00:54:40 +1030, Matthew Thyer wrote:
>
> > > /boot/kernel/kernel: swap_pager_getswapspace: failed
> > >
> > > This seems to have started in the last week.
> > >
> >
> > I saw the same problem until I stopped using mfs on /tmp.
> >
> > Stop using mfs f
On Fri, 12 Jan 2001 00:54:40 +1030, Matthew Thyer wrote:
> > /boot/kernel/kernel: swap_pager_getswapspace: failed
> >
> > This seems to have started in the last week.
> >
>
> I saw the same problem until I stopped using mfs on /tmp.
>
> Stop using mfs for /tmp.
Are you sure it's not just /
Edwin Culp wrote:
>
> I am starting to get the following error. I've never seen it before and don't
> really understand why it should fail. Where should I start looking for the
> problem?
>
> /boot/kernel/kernel: swap_pager_getswapspace: failed
>
> This seems to have started in the last week.
On 11-Jan-01 Edwin Culp wrote:
> Thanks, John. I wish that it were that simple, that is if I am interpreting
> pstat and vmstat correctly.
It might be asking for more swap space than you have. I.e., it may need mroe
than 256 meg of swap. :(
>
> /root # pstat -s
> Device 1K-blocks
Thanks, John. I wish that it were that simple, that is if I am interpreting
pstat and vmstat correctly.
/root # pstat -s
Device 1K-blocks UsedAvail Capacity Type
/dev/rad0s2b 2620160 262016 0%Interleaved
I have two another disks that aren't being us
On 10-Jan-01 Edwin Culp wrote:
> I am starting to get the following error. I've never seen it before and
> don't
> really understand why it should fail. Where should I start looking for the
> problem?
>
> /boot/kernel/kernel: swap_pager_getswapspace: failed
>
> This seems to have started in
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