Why has my swap pager gone nuts?

[Jeff Jirsa]

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On Tue, 8 Apr 2003, [ISO-8859-1] Rickard Borgm=E4ster wrote:

> On Tue, 8 Apr 2003, Kirk Strauser wrote:
>
> > At 2003-04-08T13:30:41Z, Borgmaster <ribo6611 at student.uu.se> writes:
> >
> > > I know that one is supposed to have twice swap as physical RAM, but i=
s
> > > that really necessary on my single user workstation?
> >
> > Few things are *necessary*, but some are *highly desirable*.  FreeBSD's
> > paging algorithm is optimized for swap =3D 2*RAM.  Allocating less swap=
 causes
> > it to use less efficient routines.
>
> I know that, but I think I do have enough memory. I've stripped out most
> daemons now and the system idles at 380M free memory. But as soon as I
> start something that uses "make" it takes about ~20 sec for 90% of the
> memory to go away. This is not a swapper problem either, something else i=
s
> fucked up. I watched "top -o size" while the memory went away. Largest
> loaded process was "top" itself at 2.5M. But the number of processes rise
> sky high. A dump from "ps -ax" gives the following result, which maybe
> will give us some other ideas on what's wrong?
>
> 88861  v1  I+     0:00,00 /bin/sh -ec cd /usr/ports/x11-fonts/Xft && make=
 'CKSU

Something's busted with this make, and it's causing an infinite recursive
loop. I vaguely recall hearing something about it earlier last week,
although I don't remember the specifics. There's far too many make/sort
processes shown to be 'normal'.

cvsup your ports, and try it again.

- - Jeff
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