From owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Thu Jun 25 17:27:04 2020 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@mailman.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E80435FA6A for ; Thu, 25 Jun 2020 17:27:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from paul@gromit.dlib.vt.edu) Received: from gromit.dlib.vt.edu (gromit.dlib.vt.edu [128.173.49.70]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256 client-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits) client-digest SHA256) (Client CN "gromit.dlib.vt.edu", Issuer "Chumby Certificate Authority" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 49t6QH52Mkz4MQB; Thu, 25 Jun 2020 17:27:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from paul@gromit.dlib.vt.edu) Received: from mather.gromit23.net (c-98-244-101-97.hsd1.va.comcast.net [98.244.101.97]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by gromit.dlib.vt.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 68BDD39B; Thu, 25 Jun 2020 13:26:57 -0400 (EDT) From: Paul Mather Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 12.4 \(3445.104.14\)) Subject: Re: swap space issues Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2020 13:26:56 -0400 In-Reply-To: Cc: Greg 'groggy' Lehey , freebsd-stable To: dwilde1@gmail.com References: <20200625000410.GA10210@eureka.lemis.com> <20200625025248.GB10210@eureka.lemis.com> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.3445.104.14) X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 49t6QH52Mkz4MQB X-Spamd-Bar: / Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; dkim=none; dmarc=fail reason="No valid SPF, No valid DKIM" header.from=vt.edu (policy=none); spf=none (mx1.freebsd.org: domain of paul@gromit.dlib.vt.edu has no SPF policy when checking 128.173.49.70) smtp.mailfrom=paul@gromit.dlib.vt.edu X-Spamd-Result: default: False [0.22 / 15.00]; RCVD_VIA_SMTP_AUTH(0.00)[]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; MID_RHS_MATCH_FROM(0.00)[]; RCPT_COUNT_THREE(0.00)[3]; TO_DN_SOME(0.00)[]; MV_CASE(0.50)[]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[multipart/alternative,text/plain]; NEURAL_SPAM_MEDIUM(0.09)[0.090]; RECEIVED_SPAMHAUS_PBL(0.00)[98.244.101.97:received]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_SOME(0.00)[]; NEURAL_HAM_SHORT(-0.48)[-0.478]; NEURAL_SPAM_LONG(0.11)[0.106]; R_SPF_NA(0.00)[no SPF record]; FREEMAIL_TO(0.00)[gmail.com]; FROM_EQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[]; R_DKIM_NA(0.00)[]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+,1:+,2:~]; ASN(0.00)[asn:1312, ipnet:128.173.0.0/16, country:US]; RCVD_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2]; RCVD_TLS_ALL(0.00)[]; DMARC_POLICY_SOFTFAIL(0.10)[vt.edu : No valid SPF, No valid DKIM,none] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.33 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.33 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2020 17:27:04 -0000 On Jun 24, 2020, at 11:34 PM, Donald Wilde wrote: > Meant that I upgraded from 12.1-RELEASE to 12-STABLE. When I > configured the -RELEASE install, I manually messed with the MBR disk > partitions. This is nominally a half-TB HDD which showed up as a total > of 446 G available (IIRC, gpart should show it's actual size). I did > auto partitioning, looked at the sizes, and manually set my partitions > to give me 40G of swap instead of the auto-generated size of 4G. >=20 > This is an old Dell i3 laptop. It's really generic, picked > specifically as something I could use for Ubuntu or FreeBSD. Dell > SERVICE TAG is 5K8W162, but it's a generic i3 with 4G of RAM. I think I've missed in this thread where you said which FreeBSD arch you = are running: is it FreeBSD/amd64 or FreeBSD/i386? (With an "old" = machine, 4 GB RAM, and an install still using MBR, it could potentially = be FreeBSD/i386.) If it is FreeBSD/i386, there is a precedent for it having problems with = configuring large amounts of swap. However, it is usually related to = having relatively little RAM, too (large amounts of swap space means the = OS needs to use more RAM to keep track of it). Cheers, Paul.