ons about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Archive: https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-current List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Spamd-Bar: / X-Spamd-Result: default: False [0.53 / 15.00]; SUSPICIOUS_URL_IN_SUSPICIOUS_MESSAGE(1.00)[]; AUTH_NA(1.00)[]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-1.00)[-1.000]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-1.00)[-1.000]; NEURAL_HAM_SHORT(-0.97)[-0.972]; WWW_DOT_DOMAIN(0.50)[]; MID_RHS_WWW(0.50)[]; URIBL_RED(0.50)[zefox.net:url]; HAS_ANON_DOMAIN(0.10)[]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; RCVD_TLS_LAST(0.00)[]; MISSING_XM_UA(0.00)[]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; RCPT_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2]; R_DKIM_NA(0.00)[]; MLMMJ_DEST(0.00)[freebsd-current@freebsd.org,freebsd-arm@freebsd.org]; FROM_EQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; MID_RHS_MATCH_FROM(0.00)[]; RCVD_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_ALL(0.00)[]; TO_DN_NONE(0.00)[]; DMARC_NA(0.00)[zefox.net]; R_SPF_NA(0.00)[no SPF record] X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 4d5X7R3KJQz3btW On Tue, Nov 11, 2025 at 12:45:35PM +0000, void wrote: > On Mon, Nov 10, 2025 at 05:40:49PM -0800, bob prohaska wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 10, 2025 at 11:29:10PM +0000, void wrote: > > > > fstab entry for swap is: > > > /dev/label/growfs_swap none swap sw 0 0 > > > I've not seen any recognizable benefit in heeding that warning, but YMMV > > I've two Pi2's with 3.6G of swap and one with 1.7G of swap. All misbehave > > in the same way. > > > > If using USB you could try something like (as root) > > swapoff /dev/da0s2 > > gpart resize -i 2 -s 1700M /dev/da0s2 > > swapon /dev/da0s2 > > I'm thinking maybe raising this as a PR because that swap thing - it came > as-is, pre-installed. I downloaded the Nov 3rd armv7 snapshot, > wrote it to mmcsd and it was there. I have no idea how to resize or otherwise > modify /dev/label/growfs_swap or if it's a device or a file. > Raising it as a PR because if incorrectly sized by default then that's > a fault. > > I had planned to remove the above swap entry anyway and instead have > swap nfs-mounted. it'd be faster than anything local on the rpi2b. > I'm not sure how true that is when using a USB hard disk. On a Pi2/3 I gather the network adapter is a USB device as well, so both devices compete for USB. Never tested it myself, however. I will say the Pi4 is a vast improvement. > > If using microSD I'd be wary of swap; some very mysterious file corruption > > emerged on a Pi3 which had swap on the microSD. Not your situation, of course, > > just a cautionary tale. > > It's on the microsd by default for 16:main for armv7 too as per above > > > FWIW there is a random collection of "notes to self" at > > http://www.zefox.net/~fbsd/ > > It's poorly organized, out of date and at least partly wrong. > > Thanks, I'll have a read. Happy hunting! When you find things wrong or unclear please point them out to me. Thanks for writing, bob prohaska