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Date:      Sun, 18 Mar 2018 17:54:30 -0700
From:      Mark Millard <marklmi26-fbsd@yahoo.com>
To:        bob prohaska <fbsd@www.zefox.net>, Jeff Roberson <jroberson@jroberson.net>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Cc:        "O. Hartmann" <ohartmann@walstatt.org>
Subject:   Re: Strange ARC/Swap/CPU on yesterday's -CURRENT
Message-ID:  <1F7066EE-2419-4C91-8D76-9ADCE0444AEA@yahoo.com>

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bob prohaska fbsd at www.zefox.net wrote on
Sun Mar 18 21:09:42 UTC 2018 :

> On Sun, Mar 11, 2018 at 10:43:58AM -1000, Jeff Roberson wrote:
>=20
> > Also, if you could try going back to r328953 or r326346 and let me =
know if=20
> > the problem exists in either.  That would be very helpful.  If =
anyone is=20
>=20
> Not sure this is relevant, but r326343 is able to run a j4 buildworld
> to completion on an RPi3 with 3 gigs of microSD-based swap. There are
> periods of seeming distress at times (lots of swread, pfault state
> in top along with high %idle) in top, but the compilation completes.
>=20
> In contrast, r328953 could not complete buildworld using -j4. =
Buildworld
> would stop, usually reporting c++ killed, apparently for want of swap,
> even though swap usage never exceeded about 30% accoring to top.
>=20
> The machine employs UFS filesystems, . . .


Sounds like -r326346 would be an interesting kernel to test (the
next check-in on head after -r326343, one of Jeff's check-ins).

-r328953 was just before Jeff's:

Author: jeff
Date: Tue Feb  6 22:10:07 2018
New Revision: 328954
URL:=20
https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/328954


Log:
  Use per-domain locks for vm page queue free.  Move paging control from
  global to per-domain state.  Protect reservations with the free lock
  from the domain that they belong to.  Refactor to make vm domains more
  of a first class object.



So, if -r328953 behaves oddly and -r326343 does not, then the
question is if -r326346 makes the difference:

Author: jeff
Date: Tue Nov 28 23:18:35 2017
New Revision: 326346
URL:=20
https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/326346


Log:
  Move domain iterators into the page layer where domain selection =
should take
  place.  This makes the majority of the phys layer explicitly domain =
specific.


(Unfortunately my FreeBSD time is currently greatly limited.)

It is also interesting that your test context is UFS. O. Hartmann
has reported problems for UFS in a more modern version: -r330608 .


=3D=3D=3D
Mark Millard
marklmi at yahoo.com
( dsl-only.net went
away in early 2018-Mar)




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