Full swap partition

[Mike Clarke]

I'm running kde desktop on FreeBSD 11.2 on a system with 16GB RAM and 8GB swap. Normally I don't use any swap space but after a huge pkg upgrade three days ago I've suffered a problem with the entire swap partition filling up and the system freezing on about 4 occasions.

I suspect that this might be due to a bug in plasma5-plasma-workspace which was upgraded from version 5.14.5.1 to 5.15.0 because it now appears to require 128GB virtual memory

curlew:/home/mike% top -o size
last pid:  1738;  load averages:  0.22,  0.32,  0.21     up 0+00:12:44  16:11:28
144 processes: 1 running, 142 sleeping, 1 zombie
CPU 0:  0.8% user,  0.0% nice,  0.4% system,  0.4% interrupt, 98.4% idle
CPU 1:  0.8% user,  0.0% nice,  0.4% system,  0.0% interrupt, 98.8% idle
CPU 2:  1.6% user,  0.0% nice,  1.2% system,  0.0% interrupt, 97.3% idle
CPU 3:  0.0% user,  0.0% nice,  0.0% system,  0.0% interrupt,  100% idle
Mem: 1653M Active, 470M Inact, 2104M Wired, 40K Buf, 11G Free
ARC: 1264M Total, 430M MFU, 801M MRU, 4703K Anon, 4920K Header, 24M Other
     742M Compressed, 1059M Uncompressed, 1.43:1 Ratio
Swap: 8192M Total, 8192M Free

  PID USERNAME     THR PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE   C   TIME    WCPU COMMAND
 1272 mike          13  20    0   128G   210M select  3   0:05   0.01% plasmashe

The corresponding value for SIZE before the upgrade was 293M.

The problem is only sporadic, I can run for several hours with no swap being used (as in the above output from top) and then it suddenly fills up.

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Mike Clarke