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Date:      Fri, 21 Jul 2017 18:21:06 -0700
From:      Peter Grehan <grehan@freebsd.org>
To:        Zaphod Beeblebrox <zbeeble@gmail.com>
Cc:        "freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org" <freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Bhyve Broken: whose fault (AMD, FreeBSD, ZFS ...?)
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On 7/21/17 5:54 PM, Peter Grehan wrote:
>> remember that the quoted problem is spit out by the guest, not the host.
>>
>> That said, the 'top' line on the frozen bhyve was:
>>
>> 29380 root          22  20    0  1060M   928M kqread  5 218:32 399.30% 
>> bhyve
>>
>> ... indicating that the bhyve had almost all it's memory... and the 
>> system had also 500M free when I checked it.
> 
>   Are you using a "-j" option to buildworld in the guest ? You'd need at 
> least 1G for each vCPU when doing parallel builds (and preferably a bit 
> more) or you will swap heavily.

  I should add: I'm not saying this will fix the problem, but if it is 
an issue with the guest swapping, giving the guest more RAM is a workaround.

later,

Peter.



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