Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2018 09:59:12 +0000 From: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org> To: Mark Johnston <markj@freebsd.org> Cc: Kevin Lo <kevlo@freebsd.org>, 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: <20180816095912.GA80650@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20180627115526.GA52468@pesky> 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> <20180627104638.GA15311@FreeBSD.org> <20180627115526.GA52468@pesky>
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On Wed, Jun 27, 2018 at 07:55:26AM -0400, Mark Johnston wrote: > On Wed, Jun 27, 2018 at 10:46:38AM +0000, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 15, 2018 at 04:40:22AM -0400, Mark Johnston wrote: > > > ... > > > The change was committed as r334752. Are you seeing unexpected OOM > > > kills on or after that revision? > > > > I've just discovered this thread. I've updated my -CURRENT desktop ca. > > June 4th and my X.org session crashes within several minutes. This is > > on i386 system with 4G RAM. > > > > I cannot get SVN revision of that kernel because something got broken > > and it was not embedded in the image. :-( > > > > Rebooting with kernel="kernel.old" from May 12th made this problem go > > away. Is the root cause is known at this time? Which revision shall > > I try to see whether it does not exhibit this bug any longer? Thanks, > > As noted earlier in the thread, r329882 introduced a problem where > out-of-memory kills were taking place despite an abundance of free pages > and swap space. That bug was fixed in r334752. If you are seeing a > problem that is fixed in a kernel from May 12th, then it is possibly > unrelated to this bug, but it is worth testing r334752 or later to > confirm. Thanks, I can confirm that r334752 fixed the out-of-memory kills for me now that I've been running it for two weeks without a single problem. ./danfe
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