RPI3 swap experiments

[Mark Millard]

On 2018-Aug-1, at 5:28 PM, bob prohaska <fbsd at www.zefox.net> wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 31, 2018 at 09:11:26PM -0700, Mark Millard wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> On 2018-Jul-31, at 9:05 PM, Jamie Landeg-Jones <jamie at catflap.org> wrote:
>> 
>>> bob prohaska <fbsd at www.zefox.net> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On Tue, Jul 31, 2018 at 07:09:43PM -0700, Mark Millard wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Mark Johnston also mentions "sysctl vm" output as proving more
>>>>> contextual information.
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> The significance of those lines isn't totally lost on me, but 
>>>> it's not obvious how to apply them. Any guidance appreciated! 
>>> 
>>> N.B. I know Mark just made a typo, but for info, It's actually "systat -vm"
>> 
>> I do not expect so: Mark Johnston was likely correct . . .
>> 
>> Here is an example of what "sysctl vm" reports (not from an rpi3
>> or rpi2 context):
>> 
> [snip]
> 
> The output isn't any more concise on an rpi3. Is there a set of options and
> arguments that would pare the result down to something that would not bloat 
> the gstat logging output and still be informative to an expert?

While Mark Johnston indicated that "sysctl vm" likely provided sufficient
additional information, I do not know what of it is necessary vs. what
might be irrelevant.

Nor do I know the right time frame(s) for the execution relative to when the
OOMA kill(s) happen during buildworld.

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