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Date:      Sun, 5 Jan 2020 14:08:22 +0100 (CET)
From:      Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@puchar.net>
To:        Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@puchar.net>
Cc:        Mark Millard <marklmi@yahoo.com>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: processes are killed because of out of swap space
Message-ID:  <alpine.BSF.2.20.2001051408100.3906@puchar.net>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.20.2001051307080.18098@puchar.net>
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>> If you are not seeing such swap_pager_getswapspace  messages, then
>> it is likely that the mount of swap space still available is not the
>> actual thing driving the kills.
>> 
>> Another thing that can lead to kills is paging I/O that is
>> slow.
>
> paging device is nvd so it's fast. And system isn't even paging heavily. but 
> is doing geom_raid5 rebuild right now+copying lots of files to this raid (new 
> RAID5 just created).
>
>
> but still - there is A LOT of memory to be reclaimed. inactive is many 
> gigabytes on my server.
>
>> # Delay when persisstent low free RAM leads to
>> # Out Of Memory killing of processes:
>> vm.pageout_oom_seq=120
> set to 300.
>
>> some free RAM.)
>> 
>> #
>> # For plunty of swap/paging space (will not
>> # run out), avoid pageout delays leading to
>> # Out Of Memory killing of processes:
>> vm.pfault_oom_attempts=-1
>
> i don't have such sysctl. is it in FreeBSD 12?
> i have 11.3
>

after changes - no effect



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