Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2017 10:34:02 +0800 From: blubee blubeeme <gurenchan@gmail.com> To: Mark Millard <markmi@dsl-only.net> Cc: FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: get_swap_pager(x) failed Message-ID: <CALM2mEnftYe4P=Gqx1tE=jUYDSQq4Wh-7_TqnLV_DJYie8%2BtBw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <C19068B6-2578-41B8-9076-97448C2AF5CB@dsl-only.net> References: <C19068B6-2578-41B8-9076-97448C2AF5CB@dsl-only.net>
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On Wed, Dec 13, 2017 at 5:53 AM, Mark Millard <markmi@dsl-only.net> wrote: > blubee blubeeme gurenchan at gmail.com wrote on > Tue Dec 12 15:58:19 UTC 2017 : > > > On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 3:34 PM, blubee blubeeme <gurenchan at gmail.com > > >wrote: > > > I am seeing tons of these messages while running tail -f > /var/log/messages > > > ============ > > > Dec 12 15:11:41 blubee kernel: swap_pager_getswapspace(25): failed > > . . . > > > 1159 blubee 5 20 0 149M 56876K select 6 1:05 0.00% > > > ibus-engine-chewing > > > > > > =========== > > > > > > What's with all the swap errors? I am running ZFS and I have 16GB of > ram, > > > how could I be having swap space errors? > > > > > > > Well I added 4GB of extra swap in /var/tmp/swap0 > > then added that to my /etc/fstab: md99 none swap > > sw,file=/var/tmp/swap0,late 0 0 > > > > and those errors went away. > > I recommend reviewing bugzilla 206048 (title in part > "swapfile usage hangs; swap partition works"): > > https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=206048 > > before using file-system based swap spaces. They have > lots of problems with deadlocks. See especially comments > #7 and #8 quoting Konstantin Belousov. #8 is just a > reference to: > > https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/ > kerneldebug-deadlocks.html > > Comment #3 shows a way to test for the problematical > behavior. > > Using swap partitions avoids the issue. > > === > Mark Millard > markmi at dsl-only.net > > Thanks for the info, why would I be getting swap errors like that when I have 32GB of ram? sysctl hw.physmem hw.physmem: 34253692928 That really doesn't make any sense to me... Is it Chromium eating up 32GB+ of ram?
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