Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2025 16:44:46 +0100 From: void <void@f-m.fm> To: freebsd-pkg@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pkg upgrade, vfs.zfs.arc.free_target, vfs.zfs.arc.sys_free, vm.pageout_oom_seq Message-ID: <aLRt7g0HAgZLTbYD@int21h> In-Reply-To: <29ff7f7e-12ef-4d10-8ca4-15ae35ce6bae@gmail.com> References: <D2C64F39-B6EA-47BD-B88E-B4D729BE0150@yahoo.com> <0dbf8c95-7697-4887-a890-335c3ccd80f1@gmail.com> <29ff7f7e-12ef-4d10-8ca4-15ae35ce6bae@gmail.com>
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On Sat, Aug 30, 2025 at 10:19:57AM +0100, Graham Perrin wrote: >The physical storage that I use for the virtual disks is slow, even >when connected to super speed USB (5Gb/s). An old StoreJet Transcend >mobile HDD. The varying slowness might explain why upgrades fails for >me (pkg killed, failed to reclaim memory) more often than for other >testers. I've had two external usb3-connected disks and write performance got so bad I had to throw them away, for the reasons you're describing. These were SMR disks. It seemed to me that the decreasing performance could be viewed as a failure mode, but with data not being lost. Good for archives I guess but forget it for heavy disk i/o. --home | help
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