swap space issues

[Greg 'groggy' Lehey]

On Wednesday, 24 June 2020 at  9:36:23 -0700, Donald Wilde wrote:
> All,
>
> I recently upgraded my 12-STABLE system to the latest, and now my
> swap subsystems aren't working. I deliberately set up a 40GB
> partition for swap, and when I do 'top -t' I am only seeing 7906M
> total.

That looks suspiciously like the difference from 32 GB.  Could it be
numeric overflow?  And if so, where?  What does pstat -s say?

> When using synth, it shows swap usage of < 2%, but then it gives the
> 'out of swap' complaint and tosses all my users out into neverland.

Unless this also causes kernel messages to that effect, this, too,
could be an issue with synth.

Greg
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