Re: Resolved: devel/llvm13 build: "ninja: build stopped: subcommand failed"

From: Nuno Teixeira <eduardo_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2022 18:07:33 UTC
I will follow https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/book/#disks-growing
and resize actual swap, but before that I will have to make sure that
backups are ok in case of something goes wrong.

I've tooked a note about total swap <=60GB

Thanks

Mark Millard <marklmi@yahoo.com> escreveu no dia domingo, 14/08/2022 à(s)
18:46:

> > On 2022-Aug-14, at 10:31, Nuno Teixeira <eduardo@freebsd.org> wrote:
> >
> > Ok, I will avoid a swap file.
> >
> > My actual config shows:
> > `swapinfo`:
> > ---
> > Device          1K-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity
> > /dev/nvd0p2       4194304     6036  4188268     0%
> > ---
> > and `cat /etc/fstab`:
> > ---
> > # Device                Mountpoint      FStype  Options         Dump
> Pass#
> > /dev/nvd0p1             /boot/efi       msdosfs rw              2       2
> > /dev/nvd0p2             none    swap    sw              0       0
> > ---
> >
> > Any clues how do I do this?
>
> You can have more than one swap partition active, such that
> the total is the size that you want. (I do this to have
> various freebsd-swap partition sizes available for media
> that can be used to boot multiple systems with widely
> varying amounts of RAM: sometimes having, say, 3 partitions
> in use to get a desired total, for example.)
>
> So you could even plug in a new device and create a
> freebsd-swap type partition on it to add, say, 56 GiBytes
> of SWAP to what you already have.
>
> I've no clue about your other media that you might be
> able to use, partitioning on media, etc. and so can not
> be very specific for your context.
>
> > Mark Millard <marklmi@yahoo.com> escreveu no dia domingo, 14/08/2022
> à(s) 18:21:
> > On 2022-Aug-14, at 10:15, Nuno Teixeira <eduardo@freebsd.org> wrote:
> >
> > > I use ZFS.
> > >
> > > I will follow your recomendations and use a swap of 64GB and then test
> it again.
>
> Note that I recommended up to 60 GB total SWAP, not 64 GB total
> SWAP. 64 GB total would produce warnings about potential
> mistuning for a 16 GiByte RAM machine. I avoid such
> configurations.
>
> > > In the meanwhile I will take a look at freebsd docs to see how do I
> increase swap, by adding a new swap file or resize actual one if possible.
> >
> > I recommend never using a swap file, only swap partition(s), in order
> > to avoid deadlocks and such:
> >
> > On 2017-Feb-13, at 7:20 PM, Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel at gmail.com>
> wrote
> > on the freebsd-arm list:
> >
> > . . .
> >
> > swapfile write requires the write request to come through the filesystem
> > write path, which might require the filesystem to allocate more memory
> > and read some data. E.g. it is known that any ZFS write request
> > allocates memory, and that write request on large UFS file might require
> > allocating and reading an indirect block buffer to find the block number
> > of the written block, if the indirect block was not yet read.
> >
> > As result, swapfile swapping is more prone to the trivial and unavoidable
> > deadlocks where the pagedaemon thread, which produces free memory, needs
> > more free memory to make a progress.  Swap write on the raw partition
> over
> > simple partitioning scheme directly over HBA are usually safe, while e.g.
> > zfs over geli over umass is the worst construction.
> >
>
>
>
> ===
> Mark Millard
> marklmi at yahoo.com
>
>

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Nuno Teixeira
FreeBSD Committer (ports)