System crashing when swap hits 25%
Simon Slater
pyevet at aapt.net.au
Mon Mar 10 22:37:49 UTC 2008
G'day all,
This is an inconvenience that I would like to get to the bottom of. I
have a PII 233MHz 512 MbRAM running FC6. All is fine until swap reaches
about 25% used then the system hangs. It will run for days with the
swap at 10-15%. My first thought was to run badblocks to see if that
was the problem, since it is an old drive, but couldn't find the swap
device with mount.
My questions are: what would cause this system to hang when the swap
file is used?; where is the swap file?; if in the VG, how do I umount it
to run badblocks? Here is some output that may be useful.
Thanks.
[simon at Ipex ~]$ free
total used free shared buffers
cached
Mem: 515220 506260 8960 0 111608
166892
-/+ buffers/cache: 227760 287460
Swap: 1048568 0 1048568
[simon at Ipex ~]$ df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
12347224 9727388 1982500 84% /
/dev/hda1 101086 10825 85042 12% /boot
tmpfs 257608 0 257608 0% /dev/shm
[simon at Ipex ~]$ mount
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 on / type ext3 (rw)
proc on /proc type proc (rw)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
/dev/hda1 on /boot type ext3 (rw)
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
none on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw)
sunrpc on /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs type rpc_pipefs (rw)
nfsd on /proc/fs/nfsd type nfsd (rw)
[simon at Ipex ~]$
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Regards
Simon
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