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Date: Sun 09-Nov-1989 15:44:48 From: Unknown Subject: swapfile size and hanging My NeXT machine has been hanging recently. It seems that my swapfile grows to my high watermark of 80Mbytes and then thrashes(?) to death. Basically, I couldn't do anything with my windows (I just get the little disk icon as the mouse pointer) and I couldn't login from another machine. Here is what is recorded in /usr/adm/messages... . .more of the same . Nov 9 11:09:21 mendelssohn mach: vnode_pager: /private/vm/swapfile is full. Nov 9 11:10:07 mendelssohn mach: vnode_pager: /private/vm/swapfile is available again. . .more of the same . Nov 9 12:28:31 mendelssohn mach: vnode_pager: /private/vm/swapfile is full. Nov 9 12:45:37 mendelssohn lookupd[66]: netinfo sleeping: RPC: Timed out Nov 9 12:45:47 mendelssohn mach: vnode_pager: /private/vm/swapfile is available again. Nov 9 12:45:47 mendelssohn mach: vnode_pager: /private/vm/swapfile is full. Nov 9 12:45:47 mendelssohn lookupd[66]: netinfo waking Nov 9 12:46:10 mendelssohn lookupd[66]: netinfo sleeping: RPC: Timed out Nov 9 12:48:30 mendelssohn lookupd[66]: netinfo waking Nov 9 12:49:01 mendelssohn lookupd[66]: netinfo sleeping: RPC: Timed out . .more of the same . Nov 9 12:58:16 mendelssohn lookupd[66]: netinfo waking Nov 9 12:58:30 mendelssohn lookupd[66]: netinfo sleeping: RPC: Timed out I gave up and rebooted here. What's going on? Thanks. Shu-Wie ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Shu-Wie F Chen Department of Computer Science swfc@cs.columbia.edu Columbia University >From: olson@brutus.cs.uiuc.edu (Robert Olson)
Date: Sun 11-Nov-1989 02:46:20 From: Unknown Subject: Re: swapfile size and hanging In article <SWFC.89Nov9104448@mendelssohn.cs.columbia.edu> swfc@mendelssohn.cs.columbia.edu (Shu-Wie F Chen) writes: > >My NeXT machine has been hanging recently. It seems that my swapfile grows >to my high watermark of 80Mbytes and then thrashes(?) to death. >What's going on? Yes, your machine is thrashing to death. You must be running some program with a severe memory leak (unfortunately, virtual memory systems tend to allow these to run for long times). If you notice your swapfile is large, launch a Shell and try something like "ps aux" Look under the VSIZE column (virtual size) for processes with huge virtual sizes. What to do next will depend on what you find.
Date: Sun 14-Nov-1989 07:13:08 From: Unknown Subject: Re: swapfile size and hanging In article <SWFC.89Nov9104448@mendelssohn.cs.columbia.edu> swfc@mendelssohn.cs.columbia.edu (Shu-Wie F Chen) writes: > >My NeXT machine has been hanging recently. It seems that my swapfile grows >to my high watermark of 80Mbytes and then thrashes(?) to death. Basically, >I couldn't do anything with my windows (I just get the little disk icon as >the mouse pointer) and I couldn't login from another machine. I'm trying to avoid this hanging by (1) setting the hiwater mark (w/ mach-swapon) and (2) NFS mounting another swap file. I'll let you know what happens. John >From: stan@toaster.SFSU.EDU (Stan Osborne)
Date: Sun 15-Nov-1989 07:46:31 From: Unknown Subject: Re: swapfile size and hanging In article <613@ncis.tis.llnl.gov> carlson@lance.tis.llnl.gov (John Carlson) writes: >I'm trying to avoid this hanging by (1) setting the hiwater mark >(w/ mach-swapon) and (2) NFS mounting another swap file. I'll >let you know what happens. Here's what I did: (1) Created /etc/swaptab.local (2) added mach_swapon -v -f /etc/swaptab.local -a > /dev/console 2>&1 to /etc/rc.local -- This did not seem to work until I sh'ed /etc/rc.local by hand. Nothing echoed on start up. When I sh'ed by hand, it did echo correctly. (3) Made appropriate changes to /etc/exports file on a Sun. This seemed to work fine for a while (I saw the remote disk light up a few times!), but when I logged in this morning, the system froze when the NeXT dock symbol came up. After trying several mechanisms (Command-Command-`, Command-`, Power Off) I did an Alternate-Left Command *, which rebooted the system. John Carlson carlson@tis.llnl.gov >From: carlson@lance.tis.llnl.gov (John Carlson)
Date: Sun 15-Nov-1989 07:46:31 From: Unknown Subject: Re: swapfile size and hanging In article <613@ncis.tis.llnl.gov> carlson@lance.tis.llnl.gov (John Carlson) writes: >I'm trying to avoid this hanging by (1) setting the hiwater mark >(w/ mach-swapon) and (2) NFS mounting another swap file. I'll >let you know what happens. Here's what I did: (1) Created /etc/swaptab.local (2) added mach_swapon -v -f /etc/swaptab.local -a > /dev/console 2>&1 to /etc/rc.local -- This did not seem to work until I sh'ed /etc/rc.local by hand. Nothing echoed on start up. When I sh'ed by hand, it did echo correctly. (3) Made appropriate changes to /etc/exports file on a Sun. This seemed to work fine for a while (I saw the remote disk light up a few times!), but when I logged in this morning, the system froze when the NeXT dock symbol came up. After trying several mechanisms (Command-Command-`, Command-`, Power Off) I did an Alternate-Left Command *, which rebooted the system. John Carlson carlson@tis.llnl.gov >From: carlson@lance.tis.llnl.gov (John Carlson)
Date: Sun 15-Nov-1989 15:11:14 From: Unknown Subject: Re: swapfile size and hanging <6934@pt.cs.cmu.edu> >In article <SWFC.89Nov9104448@mendelssohn.cs.columbia.edu> swfc@mendelssohn.cs.columbia.edu (Shu-Wie F Chen) writes: >> >>My NeXT machine has been hanging recently. It seems that my swapfile grows >>to my high watermark of 80Mbytes and then thrashes(?) to death. >> >>What's going on? > >Yes, your machine is thrashing to death. You must be running some program >with a severe memory leak (unfortunately, virtual memory systems tend to >allow these to run for long times). If you notice your swapfile is large, >launch a Shell and try something like "ps aux" Look under the VSIZE column >(virtual size) for processes with huge virtual sizes. What to do next will >depend on what you find. >-- >Avadis Tevanian, Jr. (Avie) >Manager, System Software >NeXT, Inc. >avie@NeXT.COM Well, we have found the program with the severe memory leak. It seems to be lookupd. Currently, it has a VSIZE of 45.5M, up from 40M of three hours ago. This "phenomena" has also been observed on another NeXT. I had been told by jgreely that this is YP-related and is a known problem. 1. What is the bug/problem 2. When will it be fixed 3. Is there a temporary fix besides rebooting every couple of days or not running YP Thanks. ~swfc ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Shu-Wie F Chen Department of Computer Science swfc@cs.columbia.edu Columbia University >From: erica@kong.gatech.edu (Erica Liebman)
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