RPI3 swap experiments (insufficient swap)

[Jamie Landeg-Jones]

bob prohaska <fbsd at www.zefox.net> wrote:

> That matches my usual experience. The "disk errors"  show up under duress,
> as when the machine is deliberately run out of swap. Much more rarely, they
> turn up on a reboot, seemingly about the time the system mounts the filesystems.
>
> At one point a series of reboots failed consecutively. Simply going to single
> user first, then exiting the shell, allowed a successful startup.
>
> Does anything special happen on the very first reference to a storage device
> during startup?

I haven't seen anything like that, but then, you've most likely done more rebooting
and testing than I have.

No idea on your question, sorry...

cheers, Jamie