panic faulting when out of memory

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From: Jamie Gulden
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1993 22:05

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This probably isn't a bug but...

Does IRIX (4.0.4) normally panic fault if it runs out of swap
space?  I've got a short 5-7 line program that I try to find
out how much memory I can allocate and it keeps panic faulting.

The syslog has a bunch of these:

Jan  5 13:52:35 nagel unix: dks0d3s1: Swap out failed blkno 0x3C514 (page still in memory)
Jan  5 13:52:35 nagel unix: 
Jan  5 13:52:35 nagel unix: dks0d3s1: Swap out failed blkno 0x3C834 (page still in memory)
Jan  5 13:52:35 nagel unix: 
Jan  5 13:52:35 nagel unix: dks0d3s1: Swap out failed blkno 0x3CA9C (page still in memory)
Jan  5 13:56:53 nagel syslogd: restart


And then the system comes up with this:

Jan  5 13:57:04 nagel syslogd: restart
Jan  5 13:57:05 nagel savecore: reboot after panic: 
Jan  5 13:57:05 nagel PANIC: swapoutpts - i/o error in swap


So, is there a disk I/O problem, did we tell it to use more blocks
than there actually are, or something else I'm missing.

Thanks, Jamie

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