Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!columbia!cs!swfc From: swfc@mendelssohn.cs.columbia.edu (Shu-Wie F Chen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: swapfile size and hanging Message-ID: Date: 9 Nov 89 15:44:48 GMT Sender: news@cs.columbia.edu Distribution: usa Organization: Columbia University Computer Science Lines: 41 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