On Tue, Mar 06, 2018 at 10:16:36AM -0800, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 06, 2018 at 08:40:10AM -0800, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > > > > On Mon, 5 Mar 2018 14:39-0600, Larry Rosenman wrote: > > > > > > > > > Upgraded to: > > > > > > > > > > FreeBSD borg.lerctr.org 12.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 12.0-CURRENT #11 > > > > > r330385: Sun Mar 4 12:48:52 CST 2018 > > > > > r...@borg.lerctr.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/amd64.amd64/sys/VT-LER amd64 > > > > > +1200060 1200060 > > > > > > > > > > Yesterday, and I'm seeing really strange slowness, ARC use, and SWAP > > > > > use and swapping. > > > > > > > > > > See http://www.lerctr.org/~ler/FreeBSD/Swapuse.png > > > > > > > > I see these symptoms on stable/11. One of my servers has 32 GiB of > > > > RAM. After a reboot all is well. ARC starts to fill up, and I still > > > > have more than half of the memory available for user processes. > > > > > > > > After running the periodic jobs at night, the amount of wired memory > > > > goes sky high. /etc/periodic/weekly/310.locate is a particular nasty > > > > one. > > > > > > I would like to find out if this is the same person I have > > > reporting this problem from another source, or if this is > > > a confirmation of a bug I was helping someone else with. > > > > > > Have you been in contact with Michael Dexter about this > > > issue, or any other forum/mailing list/etc? > > Just IRC/Slack, with no response. > > > > > > If not then we have at least 2 reports of this unbound > > > wired memory growth, if so hopefully someone here can > > > take you further in the debug than we have been able > > > to get. > > What can I provide? The system is still in this state as the full backup > > is slow. > > One place to look is to see if this is the recently fixed: > https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=222288 > g_bio leak. > > vmstat -z | egrep 'ITEM|g_bio|UMA' > > would be a good first look > borg.lerctr.org /home/ler $ vmstat -z | egrep 'ITEM|g_bio|UMA' ITEM SIZE LIMIT USED FREE REQ FAIL SLEEP UMA Kegs: 280, 0, 346, 5, 560, 0, 0 UMA Zones: 1928, 0, 363, 1, 577, 0, 0 UMA Slabs: 112, 0,25384098, 977762,102033225, 0, 0 UMA Hash: 256, 0, 59, 16, 105, 0, 0 g_bio: 384, 0, 33, 1627,542482056, 0, 0 borg.lerctr.org /home/ler $ > > > > Limiting the ARC to, say, 16 GiB, has no effect of the high amount of > > > > wired memory. After a few more days, the kernel consumes virtually all > > > > memory, forcing processes in and out of the swap device. > > > > > > Our experience as well. > > > > > > ... > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Rod Grimes > > > rgri...@freebsd.org > > Larry Rosenman http://www.lerctr.org/~ler > > -- > Rod Grimes rgri...@freebsd.org
-- Larry Rosenman http://www.lerctr.org/~ler Phone: +1 214-642-9640 E-Mail: l...@lerctr.org US Mail: 5708 Sabbia Drive, Round Rock, TX 78665-2106
signature.asc
Description: PGP signature
