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From: versatc!tran@sun.com (Tony Tran)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun
Subject: Swap problems in xalloc : No swap space for text
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Date: 8 Feb 89 11:25:08 GMT
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Once in a while, I ran into a problem while running some Unix commands on
my SUN station {like who, df...}. The command aborts with the following
error message:

sorry, pid xxxx was killed due to swap problems in xalloc: no swap space
for text

This is on a SUN 3/160 with 8MB of physical memory and and 17MB of swap I
did notice some background jobs running (about 6 of them that are running
uucico and sendbatch).

Is there anything I can do to fix this problem?

  Tony Tran
Versatec Corp.
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UUCP: {sun|ames|pyramid|vsi1|leadsv}!versatc!tran  	Tony Tran
Versatec, 2805 Bowers Avenue, Santa Clara, Calif 95051 (408)982-4317

[[ You can check to see how much swap space is left with the command
"/etc/pstat -s".  If there isn't enough, increase it.  Describing how to
do that is probably more than should be put in a comment like this.
--wnl ]]