Hi,
since yesterday my system gets weird !
Every time I open a "xterm" or "rxvt" I get the message:
Swapping space nearly exhausted. Please reduce number of running
processes.
But that's nonsens; top says:
6:19pm up 55 min, 1 user, load average: 0.37, 0.78, 0.82
25 processes: 24 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states: 5.0% user, 0.0% nice, 4.8% system, 90.3% idle
Mem: 7088K av, 5288K used, 1800K free, 2488K shrd, 1744K buff
Swap: 16608K av, 1584K used, 15024K free
PID USER PRI NI SIZE RES SHRD STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND
207 gold 22 0 96 308 332 R 5.7 4.3 0:01 top
181 root 10 0 1523 1288 876 S 2.4 18.1 5:03 X :0
193 gold 3 0 176 512 492 S 1.6 7.2 0:01 rxvt
1 root 1 0 44 68 204 S 0.0 0.9 0:00 init
174 gold 1 0 340 0 176 SW 0.0 0.0 0:02 (startx)
153 root 1 0 37 32 184 S 0.0 0.4 0:00 /sbin/agetty 38400 t
23 root 1 0 60 128 220 S 0.0 1.8 0:00 /usr/sbin/crond -l10
6 root 1 0 24 52 232 S 0.0 0.7 0:00 (update)
7 root 1 0 24 76 248 S 0.0 1.0 0:00 update (bdflush)
180 gold 1 0 56 144 256 S 0.0 2.0 0:00 xinit /usr/X386/lib/
43 root 1 0 61 100 196 S 0.0 1.4 0:00 /usr/sbin/syslogd
45 root 1 0 36 116 208 S 0.0 1.6 0:00 /usr/sbin/klogd
47 root 1 0 64 0 180 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 (rpc.portmap)
49 root 1 0 68 0 176 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 (inetd)
51 root 1 0 64 0 172 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 (lpd)
53 root 1 0 100 0 192 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 (rpc.mountd)
78 root 1 0 37 0 184 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 (agetty)
68 root 1 0 88 0 184 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 (rpc.pcnfsd)
183 gold 1 0 341 184 308 S 0.0 2.5 0:00 sh /usr/X386/lib/X11
186 gold 1 0 64 148 236 S 0.0 2.0 0:00 rclock -geometry 80x
187 gold 1 0 156 200 300 S 0.0 2.8 0:04 rxvt -e /usr/bin/bas
188 gold 1 0 168 400 416 S 0.0 5.6 0:01 fvwm
189 gold 1 0 451 432 424 S 0.0 6.0 0:02 /usr/bin/bash
194 gold 1 0 448 520 468 S 0.0 7.3 0:02 /bin/bash
66 root 1 0 120 0 200 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 (rpc.nfsd)
First of all where does this message come from (I couldn't find it in the
kernel sources) ?
This message does not appear in any of the logfiles !
I made an upgrade from 1.1.47 to 1.1.52, but this problem still occured.
I tried : swapoff /dev/hda2; mkswap /dev/hda2 16614 ; swapon /dev/hda2
-> no change
BTW: It is slackware 2.0 with XFree 2.1.1
The system is running Linux since SLS 1.0.2 without major problems.
What's going on ????
Any help would be appreciated
Werner
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