[CentOS] Re: swap_free messages in log
Jerry Geis
geisj at pagestation.com
Fri Mar 17 20:21:47 UTC 2006
>Jerry Geis spake the following on 3/17/2006 4:46 AM:
>>/ This morning I noticed the following message in my log file.
/>>>/ swap_free: bad swap file entry 10000000
/>>/ swap_free: bad swap file entry 20000000
/>>/ swap_free: bad swap file entry 10000000
/>>/ swap_free: bad swap file entry 20000000
/>>/ a few more times...
/.>/
/>>/ After rebooting I no longer see it.
/>>/ I have an intel 865 motherboard, 2.4 celeron,
/>>/ 2 - 300GIG seagate sata drives as software RAID-1.
/>>/
/>>/ I have had to reboot the machine sometimes
/>>/ but there were never any messages on the console
/>>/ or the log files.
/>>/
/>>/ Before my 300GIG drives I used to run 2-120GIG drives
/>>/ and had the same problem. An occasional reboot fixed it.
/>>/ I got new drives and I still have some issue?
/>>/
/>>/ Any thoughts on something to try? Thanks.
/>>/
/>>/ Jerry
/>Is swap mounted on a raid1 device or something else?
I had formatted sda2 and sdb2 as swap partitions not part of RAID.
This is for centos 4.2 with all latest updates.
# This file is edited by fstab-sync - see 'man fstab-sync' for details
/dev/md0 / ext3 defaults 1 1
none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
/dev/md1 /home ext3 defaults 1 2
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
LABEL=SWAP-sdb2 swap swap defaults 0 0
LABEL=SWAP-sda2 swap swap defaults 0 0
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