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WARNING: /etc/svc/volative: File system full, swap space limit exceeded

807557Jun 7 2009 — edited Jun 8 2009
Hi All

I'm having this problem with a Solaris 10 guest using Sun xVM VirtualBox on top of a Linux 2.6 64-bits (Sun Fire X4100 with two physical AMD Opteron and 4GB of RAM).

The guest is configured with 384MB of RAM and 6GB (three ZFS datastores of 2GB each one) as swap space.

That message appears during the boot process but before mouting ZFS datastores. Increasing the amount of memory assigned to the guest makes the problem less frequent.

Initially I was able to start the guest with only 384MB assigned to it. Now I have to assign 756MB to start the guest w/o that message

Any ideas?

Cheers
-- Andreas
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[SunOS 5.10/bash] root@bnzlabwlgrtr:/root
# df -h
Filesystem             size   used  avail capacity  Mounted on
rpool/ROOT/rootds       16G   3.5G   5.5G    39%    /
/devices                 0K     0K     0K     0%    /devices
ctfs                     0K     0K     0K     0%    /system/contract
proc                     0K     0K     0K     0%    /proc
mnttab                   0K     0K     0K     0%    /etc/mnttab
swap                   5.9G   872K   5.9G     1%    /etc/svc/volatile
objfs                    0K     0K     0K     0%    /system/object
sharefs                  0K     0K     0K     0%    /etc/dfs/sharetab
fd                       0K     0K     0K     0%    /dev/fd
rpool/ROOT/rootds/var
                        16G    69M   5.5G     2%    /var
swap                   5.9G    36K   5.9G     1%    /tmp
swap                   5.9G    28K   5.9G     1%    /var/run
rpool/export            16G    19K   5.5G     1%    /export
rpool/export/home       16G    18K   5.5G     1%    /export/home
rpool                   16G    35K   5.5G     1%    /rpool
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[SunOS 5.10/bash] root@bnzlabwlgrtr:/root
# zfs list
NAME                    USED  AVAIL  REFER  MOUNTPOINT
rpool                  10.1G  5.54G  35.5K  /rpool
rpool/ROOT             3.59G  5.54G    18K  legacy
rpool/ROOT/rootds      3.59G  5.54G  3.52G  /
rpool/ROOT/rootds/var  69.1M  5.54G  69.1M  /var
rpool/dump              512M  5.54G   512M  -
rpool/export             37K  5.54G    19K  /export
rpool/export/home        18K  5.54G    18K  /export/home
rpool/swap                2G  7.44G   103M  -
rpool/swap0               2G  7.52G  17.2M  -
rpool/swap1               2G  7.52G    18M  -
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[SunOS 5.10/bash] root@bnzlabwlgrtr:/root
# swap -l
swapfile             dev  swaplo blocks   free
/dev/zvol/dsk/rpool/swap 181,1       8 4194288 4167296
/dev/zvol/dsk/rpool/swap0 181,2       8 4194288 4167232
/dev/zvol/dsk/rpool/swap1 181,3       8 4194288 4166912
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[SunOS 5.10/bash] root@bnzlabwlgrtr:/root
# swap -s
total: 112332k bytes allocated + 20472k reserved = 132804k used, 6189184k available
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[SunOS 5.10/bash] root@bnzlabwlgrtr:/root
# prtconf|head -10
System Configuration:  Sun Microsystems  i86pc
Memory size: 576 Megabytes
System Peripherals (Software Nodes):

i86pc
    scsi_vhci, instance #0
    isa, instance #0
        i8042, instance #0
            keyboard, instance #0
            mouse, instance #0
Edited by: Bank_Of_New_Zealand on 8/06/2009 15:40
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