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Date:      Wed, 9 Aug 2017 16:45:33 +0300
From:      Gleb Popov <6yearold@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Freebsd 11.0 - system freeze on intensive I/O
Message-ID:  <CALH631mEEcUwceh1UYhpF664SoEA4P%2BU87VEhrY-vnZrrQ%2Bw8g@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <598ADB65.8060701@grosbein.net>
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On Wed, Aug 9, 2017 at 12:52 PM, Eugene Grosbein <eugen@grosbein.net> wrote=
:

> 09.08.2017 14:11, Gautam =D0=BF=D0=B8=D1=88=D0=B5=D1=82:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I raised this topic on freebsd-questions where I suspect a bug caused d=
ue
> > to swapfile usage on FreeBSD.
> >
> > You could read details in the below thread, but summary is that with
> using
> > a swapfile (not a swap partition) the system freezes on some single
> process
> > intensive I/O. This is 100% reproducible.
> >
> > http://marc.info/?l=3Dfreebsd-questions&m=3D150088763825675&w=3D2
> >
> > I raised a PR - 220971 ; but there are no backtraces / logs etc. that
> could
> > possibly help.
> >
> > I would like to help narrow this down, but do not know how. Any
> suggestions
> > on how to debug a system freeze and what I need to do ? I could then tr=
y
> to
> > reproduce this and collect the needed information - traces etc.
>
> Swapfile is definitely broken in supported FreeBSD releases, it hangs the
> system.
> The only known workaround (to me) is not using it.
>
>
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I'm using swap on ZFS, and still see the problem, so this might not be tied
to swapfile.



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