swapping is completely broken in -CURRENT r334649?

Lev Serebryakov lev at FreeBSD.org
Tue Jun 5 21:09:52 UTC 2018


On 05.06.2018 19:17, Gary Jennejohn wrote:

>>  I have 16G of free swap (out of 16G configured), but programs are
>> killed due to "out of swap space"
>>
> 
> I complained about this also and alc@ gave me this hint:
> 	sysctl vm.pageout_update_period=0
> 
> I don't whether it will help, but you can give it a try.
 Looks like it helps a little. Very resource-hungry operation have been
completed, but after ~10 minutes, when compilation have been finished,
and swap is clear again, system starts to kill processes. WTF?!

-- 
// Lev Serebryakov

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