Getting the following swap error in dmesg

[John Goetz]

Deferred swap reservation failure pid: 17269

Swapinfo is at 100% but have 5GB available in memory. Number of processes is low

[baiju_3 · Accepted solution]

Hi John ,

You need to add more swap devices ,irrespective of free available memeory .Swap spaces are reserved for each process when they start . The solution here is to add secondary swap devices , which you can do on fly .

Check manpages for swapon for details .

regards,
bl.

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi John:

When a process is spawned, swap space must be reserved. I suspect that you don't have pseudoswap enabled. To do so you need to set 'swapmem_on' and regenerate the kernel. Doing so will cause 75% of memory to be counted for the purposes of swap reservation.

To determine if you have pseudoswap enabled, look for a line with the word "memory" in this output:

# swapinfo -tam

If you don't see something like:

memory 6334 1807 4527 29%

..then pseudoswap is *not* on.

Regards!

...JRF...

[Deoncia Grayson_1]

Check this link for a possible explanation of your problem:

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=364811