Random freezes of my FreeBSD droplet (DigitalOcean)

[Stefan Lambrev]

Thanks all. I have replaced the swap and optimized few apps that were using
too much memory when idle :)
Hopefully this was the issue.

On Wed, Nov 22, 2017 at 4:17 PM, Karl Denninger <karl at denninger.net> wrote:

> 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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