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Date:      Fri, 3 Feb 2017 16:30:51 +1100
From:      Peter Jeremy <peter@rulingia.com>
To:        Giulio Ferro <auryn@zirakzigil.org>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Leak in file backed swap
Message-ID:  <20170203053051.GA90481@server.rulingia.com>
In-Reply-To: <2ba8c327-56c9-e0ff-e449-a583b6106540@zirakzigil.org>
References:  <2ba8c327-56c9-e0ff-e449-a583b6106540@zirakzigil.org>

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On 2017-Feb-02 15:59:36 +0100, Giulio Ferro <auryn@zirakzigil.org> wrote:
>FreeBSD 11-Stable recent build.
>
>I've set up a FreeBSD instance in AWS with 1GB RAM.
>
>and I created a 1GB file under /usr on the instance FS and proceeded to=20
>mount it as swap.
>
>Even if the machine isn't doing anything, after one day or less the=20
>machine becomes unresponsive

I've used swap to UFS and swap to NFS on a number of hosts without
problem.  If your /usr was on ZFS then this is a known issue (ZFS
is CoW and there are known problems dealing with RAM shortage).  If
not, can you please give more precise details of your configuration.

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Peter Jeremy

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