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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ysu.edu!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!nntp.coast.net!fu-berlin.de!zib-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: 2.1-RELEASE corrupted swap ? Date: 23 Jun 1996 19:55:19 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 21 Message-ID: <4qk7f7$9hc@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4qein7$k6p@news.clinet.fi> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E tuupola@oranssi.appelsiini.net (Mika) wrote: > I have a problem with 2.1-RELEASE dying from time to time. > The problem seem to be something with swap partition since > the system seems to go down only when it swaps. > > A couple of times I have managed to see vm_page_xxxxxx > errors on console before it boots itself. Out of swap, or rather hardware errors? If you've got another Unix machine on the Ethernet, redirect the syslog messages to that machine, so you can analyze them later. See syslog.conf(5) for the details. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)