Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2012 19:37:16 +0400 From: Sergey Kandaurov <pluknet@gmail.com> To: Volodymyr Kostyrko <c.kworr@gmail.com> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kern.maxswzone is gone... what next? Message-ID: <CAE-mSOJpN-VH2ZuyB5QvG7N6Sig1=Rv8UQcgc-2N-M61qce7sQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <5076E68F.3070109@gmail.com> References: <5076E68F.3070109@gmail.com>
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On 11 October 2012 19:32, Volodymyr Kostyrko <c.kworr@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all. > > I prefer to build all ports in /tmp, which is actually a tmpfs filesystem. I > have 8G partition. But when I tried to compile Apache OpenOffice system > starts shooting processes when I was near 6G of swap. > > Oct 11 18:12:32 ar1l0u kernel: swap zone exhausted, increase kern.maxswzone > Oct 11 18:12:32 ar1l0u kernel: pid 1334 (java), uid 818, was killed: out of > swap space > Oct 11 18:12:32 ar1l0u kernel: pid 74518 (thunderbird), uid 1001, was > killed: out of swap space > Oct 11 18:12:32 ar1l0u kernel: swap zone ok > How much RAM (avail memory) do you have? > As I'm running rather current version I see r240097 in the log that states > that there is no maxswzone setting for amd64 anymore. When I tried to query > this parameter I got: > >> sysctl kern.maxswzone > kern.maxswzone: 0 > > What was that? Did that mean that 6G is a maximum swap size now? > > PS: I'm retrying now with kern.maxswzone set to 256M. I doubt it's worth to try. -- wbr, pluknet
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