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Date:      Mon, 11 Jun 2012 23:41:57 +0300
From:      Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>
To:        alc@freebsd.org
Cc:        Garrett Cooper <yanegomi@gmail.com>, freebsd-current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: 10-CURRENT and swap usage
Message-ID:  <20120611204157.GG2337@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua>
In-Reply-To: <CAJUyCcP0ry_Mt-KKUGiaDmuUm8o1emc2RXgjuibBwOpTWuaQ5g@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 01:23:03PM -0500, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 9:26 PM, Garrett Cooper <yanegomi@gmail.com> wrote:
>=20
> >        I build out of my UFS-only VM in VMware Fusion from time to time,
> > and it looks like there's a large chunk of processes that are swapped o=
ut
> > when doing two parallel builds:
> >
> > last pid: 27644;  load averages:  2.43,  0.94,  0.98
> >
> >                              up 1+15:06:06  19:20:48
> > 79 processes:  4 running, 75 sleeping
> > CPU: 77.3% user,  0.0% nice, 22.7% system,  0.0% interrupt,  0.0% idle
> > Mem: 407M Active, 186M Inact, 208M Wired, 24M Cache, 110M Buf, 145M Free
> > Swap: 1024M Total, 267M Used, 757M Free, 26% Inuse
> >
> >        I know that some minor changes have gone in in the past couple
> > months to change when swapping and page ins/outs would occur, but I was
> > wondering if this behavior was intended; I'm finding it a bit bizarre t=
hat
> > there's ~150MB free, ~180MB inactive, and 267MB swapped out as previous
> > experience has dictated that swap is basically untouched except in extr=
eme
> > circumstances.
> >
>=20
> I can't think of any change in the past couple months that would have this
> effect.  Specifically, I don't recall there having been any change that
> would make the page daemon more (or less aggressive) in laundering dirty
> pages.
>=20
> Keep in mind that gcc at higher optimization levels can and will use a lot
> of memory, i.e., hundreds of megabytes.
The new jemalloc in debugging mode uses much more anonymous memory now.
And since typical compiler process is relatively short-lived, the picture
posted probably related to some memory hog recently finished a run.

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