tran@versatc.UUCP (Tony Tran) (01/28/89)
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)982-4317guy@auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris) (01/28/89)
>sorry, pid xxxx was killed due to swap problems in xalloc: no swap space >for text ... >Is there anything I can do to fix this problem? "no swap space for text" means exactly what it says. Allocate more swap space, or upgrade to SunOS 4.0 if you're not running it already, since it uses swap space more efficiently (prior to 4.0, SunOS used the 4.xBSD algorithm for allocating swap space, which can chew up *big* contiguous hunks of swap space for big programs).