Issue with swap space

[Matthew Dillon]

:This is happening almost dayly: I got this today while using Firefox and
:xmms on GNOME 2.8.2 and 1.1-CURRENT
:
:[diagnostic] cache_lock: blocked on 0xcc14b590 "dsp0.0"
:[diagnostic] cache_lock: blocked on 0xcc14b590 "dsp0.0"
:[diagnostic] cache_lock: blocked on 0xcc14b590 "dsp0.0"
:[diagnostic] cache_lock: blocked on 0xcc14b590 "dsp0.0"
:[diagnostic] cache_lock: unblocked dsp0.0
:[diagnostic] cache_lock: unblocked dsp0.0
:[diagnostic] cache_lock: unblocked dsp0.0
:[diagnostic] cache_lock: unblocked dsp0.0
:swap_pager: out of swap space
:swap_pager_getswapspace: failed
:Feb  4 11:56:56 lili kernel: pid 949 (firefox-bin), uid 1000, was killed: out of
: swap space
:
:Firefox begins to slow and obviously crashes.
:
:Thanks!
:
:                  -RaD|Tz

    It kinda sounds like you don't have enough memory+swap.  How much memory
    does your box have and how much disk space have you reserved for swap ?

    I recommend running 'ps axl' occassionally during the day and observing
    the amount of VM that firefox, gnome, and other applications are using,
    and also doing a 'pstat -s' to observe swap usage.

					-Matt
					Matthew Dillon 
					<dillon at xxxxxxxxxxxxx>