Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2015 11:39:57 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: Tim Daneliuk <tundra@tundraware.com> Cc: FreeBSD Stable Maling List <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Swap Questions Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.20.1508141135030.80352@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <55CDE9EE.5090603@tundraware.com> References: <55CDE9EE.5090603@tundraware.com>
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On Fri, 14 Aug 2015, Tim Daneliuk wrote: > I just built a 10.2 machine on a cloud-based VPS (Digital Ocean) that has > 512M of memory and 1G of swap partition. I am seeing a ton of errors like > this: > > Aug 14 00:01:22 myhost kernel: swap_pager_getswapspace(10): failed > Aug 14 00:01:22 myhost kernel: swap_pager_getswapspace(14): failed > Aug 14 00:01:22 myhost kernel: swap_pager_getswapspace(11): failed > Aug 14 00:01:22 myhost kernel: swap_pager_getswapspace(6): failed > Aug 14 00:01:22 myhost kernel: swap_pager_getswapspace(7): failed > Aug 14 00:01:22 myhost last message repeated 2 times > > > So, I added this to fstab (after creating /usr/swap0): > > md99 none swap sw,file=/usr/swap0 0 0 > > And then did this: > > swapon -aq > > > But, when I do a swapinfo, all I can see is the "disk" swap partition > that comes standard with the VPS: > > > Device 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity > /dev/gpt/swapfs 1048576 456572 592004 44% Add the -L (late) option to swapon. How this works might differ between 10-Release, 10-Stable, and 11. Incidentally, md99 does not have to be literal, it's just meant to get the md device number up out of the way of common interactive usage of mdconfig.
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