Random freezes of my FreeBSD droplet (DigitalOcean)

[Karl Denninger]

Yeah, don't do that.  I have a DO Zfs-enabled FreeBSD deployment and I
have the swap on /dev/gpt/swap0 (a regular slice)... no problems.

$ uptime
 9:17AM  up 174 days,  2:06, 1 users, load averages: 0.89, 0.80, 0.83
$


On 11/22/2017 08:15, Stefan Lambrev wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Thanks for this idea.
>
> Device          1K-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity
> /dev/zvol/zroot/swap   2097152   310668  1786484    15%
>
> Will check why at all swap is used when the VM is not used. But yes - as
> it's a image provided by DO the swap is on the zvol...
>
> On Wed, Nov 22, 2017 at 4:08 PM, Adam Vande More <amvandemore at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Nov 22, 2017 at 7:17 AM, Stefan Lambrev <cheffo at freebsd-bg.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Greetings,
>>>
>>> I have a droplet in DO with very light load, currently
>>> running 11.0-RELEASE-p15 amd64 GENERIC kernel + zfs (1 GB Memory / 30 GB
>>> Disk / FRA1 - FreeBSD 11.0 zfs)
>>>
>>> I know ZFS needs more memory, but the load is really light. Unfortunatelly
>>> last few weeks I'm experiencing those freezes almost every second day.
>>> There are no logs or console messages - just freeze. Networks seems to
>>> work, but nothing else.
>>>
>>> Is there anyone with similar experience here?
>>> Are there any updates in 11.1 that may affect positively my experience in
>>> the digital ocean cloud?
>>>
>> It's entirely possible to run a stable VM using that configuration so you
>> haven't provided enough details to give any real help.  A common foot
>> shooting method is putting swap on zvol, but the possibilities are endless.
>>
>> --
>> Adam
>>
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