wiredfool

I seem to be running into them all these days. Some weeks it’s just better to sleep in.

I’ve got a Dual g4/800 quicksliver that I babysit, 768 megs ram, 10.1.5, normally a load average around .5 with 25% processor usage.

Every so often, the machine (nearly) hangs. Ssh connections are refused, console access is lost, the only thing that works is static apache serving. I’m guessing that’s because all memory for apache has already been allocated and it’s just serving from a running process.

From the logs, I get the following:

Oct  8 22:56:20 Broccoli WindowServer[3390]: CGXDisableUpdate: Updates disabled 
   by connection 0x1d6cb for over 1.000000 seconds
Oct  8 22:56:36 Broccoli WindowServer[3390]: CGXDisableUpdate: Updates disabled 
   by connection 0xd377 for over 1.000000 seconds
Oct  8 22:56:47 Broccoli mach_kernel: (default pager): [KERNEL]: no space in 
   available paging segments; swapon suggested
Oct  8 22:56:47 Broccoli last message repeated 2 times
Oct  8 22:56:48 Broccoli mach_kernel: [KERNEL]: no space in available paging 
   segments; swapon suggested
Oct  8 22:56:48 Broccoli mach_kernel: (default pager): [KERNEL]: no space in 
   available paging segments; swapon suggested
Oct  8 22:56:49 Broccoli last message repeated 54 times

The last few lines repeat until the machine is restarted. In this case, for 2.5 megs of log file. There’s about 8 gigs of space availiable on disk for swap to grow.

I’m suspecting a window server bug, but google doesn’t match anything useful for the error string. yet.