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Date:      Fri, 15 Jun 2018 13:10:25 +0800
From:      Kevin Lo <kevlo@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Mark Johnston <markj@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Lev Serebryakov <lev@freebsd.org>, gljennjohn@gmail.com, FreeBSD current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: swapping is completely broken in -CURRENT r334649?
Message-ID:  <20180615051025.GA79327@ns.kevlo.org>
In-Reply-To: <20180605214808.GA94301@pesky>
References:  <d3ee2b8f-bdbe-ce25-f496-6267f9bb0212@FreeBSD.org> <20180605181716.73b8ea91@ernst.home> <2925b27f-43cf-8813-eaa7-4f3d12bef8f0@FreeBSD.org> <20180605214808.GA94301@pesky>

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On Tue, Jun 05, 2018 at 05:48:08PM -0400, Mark Johnston wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Jun 06, 2018 at 12:22:08AM +0300, Lev Serebryakov wrote:
> > On 05.06.2018 19:17, Gary Jennejohn wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > > I complained about this also and alc@ gave me this hint:
> > > 	sysctl vm.pageout_update_period=0
> > 
> >  Really, situation is worse than stated in subject, because processes
> > are being killed AFTER memory pressure, when here are a lot of free
> > memory already!
> > 
> >  It looks like very serious bug.
> 
> The issue was identified earlier this week and is being worked on. It's
> a regression from r329882 which appears only on certain hardware. You
> can probably work around it by setting vm.pageout_oom_seq to a large
> value (try 1000 for instance), though this will make the "true" OOM
> killer take longer to kick in. The problem is unrelated to the
> pageout_update_period.

I have a large swap space and I've encountered this issue as well

pid 90707 (getty), uid 0, was killed: out of swap space
pid 90709 (getty), uid 0, was killed: out of swap space
pid 90709 (getty), uid 0, was killed: out of swap space
...

Setting vm.pageout_oom_seq to 1000 doesn't help.  If you have a patch I'll be
happy to test it, thanks.

	Kevin



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