From owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org Sat Sep 14 19:41:22 2019 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@mailman.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C1370FD5E4 for ; Sat, 14 Sep 2019 19:41:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists@opsec.eu) Received: from home.opsec.eu (home.opsec.eu [IPv6:2001:14f8:200::1]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 46W2tn5Lpfz4MjZ for ; Sat, 14 Sep 2019 19:41:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists@opsec.eu) Received: from pi by home.opsec.eu with local (Exim 4.92.2 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1i9Dv3-000NDk-Mp for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Sat, 14 Sep 2019 21:41:17 +0200 Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2019 21:41:17 +0200 From: Kurt Jaeger To: FreeBSD Current Subject: Re: poudriere, swap full and top says memory is free ? Message-ID: <20190914194117.GD2863@home.opsec.eu> References: <20190914173805.GC2863@home.opsec.eu> <20190914182857.GM96402@funkthat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20190914182857.GM96402@funkthat.com> X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 46W2tn5Lpfz4MjZ X-Spamd-Bar: ---- Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; dkim=none; dmarc=none; spf=pass (mx1.freebsd.org: domain of lists@opsec.eu designates 2001:14f8:200::1 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=lists@opsec.eu X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-4.90 / 15.00]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-1.00)[-1.000,0]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; R_SPF_ALLOW(-0.20)[+mx:c]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_ALL(0.00)[]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; RCVD_TLS_LAST(0.00)[]; DMARC_NA(0.00)[opsec.eu]; RCPT_COUNT_ONE(0.00)[1]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-1.00)[-1.000,0]; SUBJECT_ENDS_QUESTION(1.00)[]; TO_DN_ALL(0.00)[]; IP_SCORE(-3.60)[ip: (-9.48), ipnet: 2001:14f8::/32(-4.73), asn: 12502(-3.79), country: DE(-0.01)]; FROM_EQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[]; R_DKIM_NA(0.00)[]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+]; ASN(0.00)[asn:12502, ipnet:2001:14f8::/32, country:DE]; RCVD_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2] X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2019 19:41:22 -0000 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. -- pi@opsec.eu +49 171 3101372 One year to go !