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In article <uh43lv0@zuni.esd.sgi.com>, olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson) writes:
|> In <Jan05.220529.70886@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU> jamison@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU (Jamie Gulden) writes:
|> 
|> 
|> | 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.
|> 
|> It isn't an out of swap problem at all.  There is a disk error
|> of some kind, *or* you have somehow configured the system to believe
|> that there is more swap space than will fit on that partition.
|> 
|> There are a couple of places in the swapping code where the system
|> is fully committed, and can't recover on an error; in most cases it
|> will just kill the process that it was trying to swap (or retry it
|> later).
|> --

I also had a customer that had added more swap using the " swap -a " command and
had set the swap boundary's slightly overlapping on another partition causing 
the very same symptoms.

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