Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2018 20:50:33 -0700 From: bob prohaska <fbsd@www.zefox.net> To: Mark Millard <marklmi26-fbsd@yahoo.com> Cc: Jeff Roberson <jroberson@jroberson.net>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, "O. Hartmann" <ohartmann@walstatt.org>, bob prohaska <fbsd@www.zefox.net> Subject: Re: Strange ARC/Swap/CPU on yesterday's -CURRENT Message-ID: <20180319035033.GA473@www.zefox.net> In-Reply-To: <1F7066EE-2419-4C91-8D76-9ADCE0444AEA@yahoo.com> References: <1F7066EE-2419-4C91-8D76-9ADCE0444AEA@yahoo.com>
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On Sun, Mar 18, 2018 at 05:54:30PM -0700, Mark Millard wrote: > 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: > > > > > Also, if you could try going back to r328953 or r326346 and let me know if > > > the problem exists in either. That would be very helpful. If anyone is > > > > 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. > > > > 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. > > > > 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: > My intent was to try 326346. Somehow 326343 arrived in its place. Do architectures affect revision numbers? I thought not, but... > Author: jeff > Date: Tue Feb 6 22:10:07 2018 > New Revision: 328954 > URL: > 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: > 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 . > When "out of swap" problems appeared I cobbled up a custom kernel, in the hope that a smaller kernel might help. It has since developed that the custom kernel can't boot, but GENERIC still boots. The system is now running a j4 buildworld on r331153 with a GENERIC kernel to see if maybe the problem has already been fixed in a way that was obscured by the customization. The kernel config is at http://www.zefox.net/~fbsd/rpi3/kernel_config/ZEFOX Thanks for reading, bob prohaska
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