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Date:      Fri, 15 Jun 2018 21:46:21 +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:  <20180615134621.GA82592@ns.kevlo.org>
In-Reply-To: <20180615084022.GA32922@pesky.lan>
References:  <d3ee2b8f-bdbe-ce25-f496-6267f9bb0212@FreeBSD.org> <20180605181716.73b8ea91@ernst.home> <2925b27f-43cf-8813-eaa7-4f3d12bef8f0@FreeBSD.org> <20180605214808.GA94301@pesky> <20180615051025.GA79327@ns.kevlo.org> <20180615084022.GA32922@pesky.lan>

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On Fri, Jun 15, 2018 at 04:40:22AM -0400, Mark Johnston wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Jun 15, 2018 at 01:10:25PM +0800, Kevin Lo wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> The change was committed as r334752.  Are you seeing unexpected OOM
> kills on or after that revision?

The box is running -CURRENT r334983.  I'll investigate further, thanks.



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