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Date:      Sat, 14 Sep 2019 21:41:17 +0200
From:      Kurt Jaeger <lists@opsec.eu>
To:        FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: poudriere, swap full and top says memory is free ?
Message-ID:  <20190914194117.GD2863@home.opsec.eu>
In-Reply-To: <20190914182857.GM96402@funkthat.com>
References:  <20190914173805.GC2863@home.opsec.eu> <20190914182857.GM96402@funkthat.com>

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Hi!

> > Mem: 4598M Active, 2854M Inact, 11G Laundry, 6409M Wired, 6375M Free
> > ARC: 3850M Total, 1721M MFU, 2090M MRU, 665K Anon, 19M Header, 19M Other
> >      3406M Compressed, 3942M Uncompressed, 1.16:1 Ratio
> > Swap: 18G Total, 18G Used, 396K Free, 99% Inuse, 68K In
> > 
> > So: Swap is full, approx. 6 GB memory is reported as free.

> > This is surprising. Can I somehow tune this in any way, so that
> > the memory available is used for the build ? Or is the problem somewhere
> > else ?
> 
> Are you sure that this hasn't just recently completed a large link of
> something like Chromium?

Yes, because I plot memory/swap/etc using nagios. It's not only
a spike.

> There are known to be compiles that can take
> many GB's of memory and if they recently exited, there hasn't been time
> to swap stuff back in...  or is this the steady state over the entire
> compile?

Building a few ports (firefox, libreoffice etc) takes some time,
so it has been stable during that phase.

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