11.0-CURRENT r290273: installer fails with "out of swap space" error

[Maxim Pugachev]

Mark,

Yes, thanks, I'll try to test it with 4GB.
Forgot to mention that I use "auto" setup: entire disk for UFS.
Installer fails when extracting kernel.txz

On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 1:45 AM, Mark Martinec
<Mark.Martinec+freebsd at ijs.si> wrote:
> On 2015-11-03 21:50, Maxim Pugachev wrote:
>>
>> I tried to install r29273 into Parallels VM, but got an error on
>> "distextract" stage. Here is the last messages from bsdinstall_log:
>>
>> DEBUG: f_debug_init: ARGV=[distextract] GETOPTS_STDARGS=[dD:]
>> DEBUG: f_debug_init: debug=[1] debugFile=[/tmp/bsdinstall_log]
>> DEBUG: Running installation step: distextract
>> Killed
>>
>> Last message from /var/log/messages:
>>
>> Nov  3 20:02:9  kernel: pid 967 (distextract), uid 0, was killed: out
>> of swap space
>>
>> My VM has 2 gigs of memory, vmstat tells that I have ~537M free
>> (swapinfo tells nothing). I dunno is it a bug or I'm doing something
>> wrong.
>
>
> Looks like the same issue as reported a year and a half ago:
>
> https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2014-January/076732.html
>
>
>   Mark