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Date:      Sun, 15 Jun 2014 00:45:21 +0200
From:      Mark Martinec <Mark.Martinec+freebsd@ijs.si>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: CURRENT: why is CURRENT swapping so fast?
Message-ID:  <539CD081.2020900@ijs.si>
In-Reply-To: <20140614152907.GA61295@over-yonder.net>
References:  <20140612003612.25cc2851.ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de> <5398F2A2.2020808@gmx.de> <46D4CB84655148FE9A5F7578E5F4A8FD@multiplay.co.uk> <539B8548.7000906@ijs.si> <20140614152907.GA61295@over-yonder.net>

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me wrote:
 >> Is this also fixed in the 10.0-STABLE by now?
 >>
>> The situation does not improve by itself, ARC has it all, less
>> active jobs scramble and fight for whatever free memory is left for
>> them and most of them remain swapped out. The best curse of action
>> to recover is to reboot. Quite a pain.

On 2014-06-14 17:29, Matthew D. Fuller wrote:
> You may want to check out
> <https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=187594>; which I
> believe is related.  Make sure you get the latest patch rather than
> the older one, ref's in comment 10 at
> <http://www.denninger.net/FreeBSD-Patches/arc-patch>.

Great, thank you, will apply it in the coming days.

One would hope that such a serious pathological behaviour
(in 10-STABLE and 11) would get the patch applied by now
(patch available for two months now, problem described in March),
or the former logic reverted.

   Mark





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