plenty of swap space, but keep receiving error "swap space limit exceeded"

plenty of swap space, but keep receiving error "swap space limit exceeded"

Post by arab » Tue, 02 Apr 2002 17:49:18



Syslog reports
  unix: WARNING: /tmp: File system full, swap space limit exceeded

But

  Filesystem            kbytes    used   avail capacity  Mounted on
  swap                 2423720   48480 2375240     3%    /tmp

The host:
  SunOS <hostname> 5.7 Generic_106541-16 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-60

I ran vmstat 1 for some time and watched for available swap space to
go to zero. But the lowest it would go is 75kB.

When analyzing this problem, I ran into the following error twice, but
for different commands:
  Can't run command <command>
  fork(2) failed; no more memory

What's going on?

Thanks.

 
 
 

plenty of swap space, but keep receiving error "swap space limit exceeded"

Post by Venkat » Tue, 02 Apr 2002 22:48:42


try adding a swap file

mkfile  swapfile size

swap -a  swapfile

then u have more swap space and try ..

check the permissions on the /tmp directory tooo

cheers

/v


> Syslog reports
>   unix: WARNING: /tmp: File system full, swap space limit exceeded

> But

>   Filesystem            kbytes    used   avail capacity  Mounted on
>   swap                 2423720   48480 2375240     3%    /tmp

> The host:
>   SunOS <hostname> 5.7 Generic_106541-16 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-60

> I ran vmstat 1 for some time and watched for available swap space to
> go to zero. But the lowest it would go is 75kB.

> When analyzing this problem, I ran into the following error twice, but
> for different commands:
>   Can't run command <command>
>   fork(2) failed; no more memory

> What's going on?

> Thanks.


 
 
 

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1. created a additonal partiton of type 82 with  fdisk
2. added an addition line in the /etc/fstab  -- identical to my first swap
     /dev/hda8   swap  swap  defaults 0 0
3. reboot

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