Re: Swap Questions
On Mon, 17 Aug 2015, Tim Daneliuk wrote: On 08/17/2015 12:53 PM, Antony Uspensky wrote: On Sat, 15 Aug 2015, Tim Daneliuk wrote: So -L does fix the problem - sort of. The machine picks up the file as additional swap on boot just fine. HWOEVER, when I try to reboot or shut down the host, I get a panic telling me some noise about not being able to shutdown swap for some reason. Try to swapoff (by hands) before shutdown. Shutdown sequence, I think, unmounts carrying disk before swapping off a carried file. If I am right, -L should be processed on shutdown also. Just a guess. Yes, that did it. But, isn't this kind of an operational bug? Shouldn't the shutdown logic do the swapoff before the unmount if it sees files being used for swap? Yes. Must. i.e. Should I enter this as a bug report? Yes, please. The only reason this matters - and it's a pretty big reason - is for production servers when someone logs in remotely, becomes root, and issued reboot. The machine hangs at the panic and never comes back ... something you do not see unless you are in a console of some sort ... ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Swap Questions
On 08/18/2015 12:29 PM, Antony Uspensky wrote: On Mon, 17 Aug 2015, Tim Daneliuk wrote: On 08/17/2015 12:53 PM, Antony Uspensky wrote: On Sat, 15 Aug 2015, Tim Daneliuk wrote: So -L does fix the problem - sort of. The machine picks up the file as additional swap on boot just fine. HWOEVER, when I try to reboot or shut down the host, I get a panic telling me some noise about not being able to shutdown swap for some reason. Try to swapoff (by hands) before shutdown. Shutdown sequence, I think, unmounts carrying disk before swapping off a carried file. If I am right, -L should be processed on shutdown also. Just a guess. Yes, that did it. But, isn't this kind of an operational bug? Shouldn't the shutdown logic do the swapoff before the unmount if it sees files being used for swap? Yes. Must. i.e. Should I enter this as a bug report? Yes, please. The only reason this matters - and it's a pretty big reason - is for production servers when someone logs in remotely, becomes root, and issued reboot. The machine hangs at the panic and never comes back ... something you do not see unless you are in a console of some sort ... Done. Bug report #202420 -- Tim Daneliuk tun...@tundraware.com PGP Key: http://www.tundraware.com/PGP/ ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Swap Questions
On Sat, 15 Aug 2015, Tim Daneliuk wrote: So -L does fix the problem - sort of. The machine picks up the file as additional swap on boot just fine. HWOEVER, when I try to reboot or shut down the host, I get a panic telling me some noise about not being able to shutdown swap for some reason. Try to swapoff (by hands) before shutdown. Shutdown sequence, I think, unmounts carrying disk before swapping off a carried file. If I am right, -L should be processed on shutdown also. Just a guess. ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Swap Questions
On 08/17/2015 12:53 PM, Antony Uspensky wrote: On Sat, 15 Aug 2015, Tim Daneliuk wrote: So -L does fix the problem - sort of. The machine picks up the file as additional swap on boot just fine. HWOEVER, when I try to reboot or shut down the host, I get a panic telling me some noise about not being able to shutdown swap for some reason. Try to swapoff (by hands) before shutdown. Shutdown sequence, I think, unmounts carrying disk before swapping off a carried file. If I am right, -L should be processed on shutdown also. Just a guess. Yes, that did it. But, isn't this kind of an operational bug? Shouldn't the shutdown logic do the swapoff before the unmount if it sees files being used for swap? i.e. Should I enter this as a bug report? The only reason this matters - and it's a pretty big reason - is for production servers when someone logs in remotely, becomes root, and issued reboot. The machine hangs at the panic and never comes back ... something you do not see unless you are in a console of some sort ... -- Tim Daneliuk tun...@tundraware.com PGP Key: http://www.tundraware.com/PGP/ ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Swap Questions
On Sat, 15 Aug 2015 21:07:55 +0200, Tim Daneliuk tun...@tundraware.com wrote: On 08/14/2015 12:39 PM, Warren Block wrote: On Fri, 14 Aug 2015, Tim Daneliuk wrote: I just built a 10.2 machine on a cloud-based VPS (Digital Ocean) that has 512M of memory and 1G of swap partition. I am seeing a ton of errors like this: Aug 14 00:01:22 myhost kernel: swap_pager_getswapspace(10): failed Aug 14 00:01:22 myhost kernel: swap_pager_getswapspace(14): failed Aug 14 00:01:22 myhost kernel: swap_pager_getswapspace(11): failed Aug 14 00:01:22 myhost kernel: swap_pager_getswapspace(6): failed Aug 14 00:01:22 myhost kernel: swap_pager_getswapspace(7): failed Aug 14 00:01:22 myhost last message repeated 2 times So, I added this to fstab (after creating /usr/swap0): md99noneswapsw,file=/usr/swap000 And then did this: swapon -aq But, when I do a swapinfo, all I can see is the disk swap partition that comes standard with the VPS: Device 1K-blocks UsedAvail Capacity /dev/gpt/swapfs 1048576 456572 59200444% Add the -L (late) option to swapon. How this works might differ between 10-Release, 10-Stable, and 11. Incidentally, md99 does not have to be literal, it's just meant to get the md device number up out of the way of common interactive usage of mdconfig. So -L does fix the problem - sort of. The machine picks up the file as additional swap on boot just fine. HWOEVER, when I try to reboot or shut down the host, I get a panic telling me some noise about not being able to shutdown swap for some reason. It helps if you provide the exact text of the panic. People regularly don't get to see these inside there crystal ball. ;-) You call it noise. Others might get an helpful hint from it to help you. Regards, Ronald. So ... I decided to just add a second disk partition for swap and - for some reason - it works fine interactively, but upon reboot, the newly created swap partition no longer exists and gpart shows the space as free again. I tried a gpart commit, but get operation not permitted. So now I am trying to figure out how to make gpart changes stick. This may be an artifact of the way Digital Ocean droplets are set up G ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Swap Questions
On Sun, 16 Aug 2015 14:51:49 +0200, Ronald Klop ronald-li...@klop.ws wrote: On Sat, 15 Aug 2015 21:07:55 +0200, Tim Daneliuk tun...@tundraware.com wrote: On 08/14/2015 12:39 PM, Warren Block wrote: On Fri, 14 Aug 2015, Tim Daneliuk wrote: I just built a 10.2 machine on a cloud-based VPS (Digital Ocean) that has 512M of memory and 1G of swap partition. I am seeing a ton of errors like this: Aug 14 00:01:22 myhost kernel: swap_pager_getswapspace(10): failed Aug 14 00:01:22 myhost kernel: swap_pager_getswapspace(14): failed Aug 14 00:01:22 myhost kernel: swap_pager_getswapspace(11): failed Aug 14 00:01:22 myhost kernel: swap_pager_getswapspace(6): failed Aug 14 00:01:22 myhost kernel: swap_pager_getswapspace(7): failed Aug 14 00:01:22 myhost last message repeated 2 times So, I added this to fstab (after creating /usr/swap0): md99noneswapsw,file=/usr/swap000 And then did this: swapon -aq But, when I do a swapinfo, all I can see is the disk swap partition that comes standard with the VPS: Device 1K-blocks UsedAvail Capacity /dev/gpt/swapfs 1048576 456572 59200444% Add the -L (late) option to swapon. How this works might differ between 10-Release, 10-Stable, and 11. Incidentally, md99 does not have to be literal, it's just meant to get the md device number up out of the way of common interactive usage of mdconfig. So -L does fix the problem - sort of. The machine picks up the file as additional swap on boot just fine. HWOEVER, when I try to reboot or shut down the host, I get a panic telling me some noise about not being able to shutdown swap for some reason. It helps if you provide the exact text of the panic. People regularly don't get to see these inside there crystal ball. ;-) You call it noise. Others might get an helpful hint from it to help you. Maybe you already knew, but adding dumpdev=AUTO in /etc/rc.conf can provide a kernel dump on panic which can be analyzed after reboot. Ronald. Regards, Ronald. So ... I decided to just add a second disk partition for swap and - for some reason - it works fine interactively, but upon reboot, the newly created swap partition no longer exists and gpart shows the space as free again. I tried a gpart commit, but get operation not permitted. So now I am trying to figure out how to make gpart changes stick. This may be an artifact of the way Digital Ocean droplets are set up G ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Swap Questions
On 08/14/2015 12:39 PM, Warren Block wrote: On Fri, 14 Aug 2015, Tim Daneliuk wrote: I just built a 10.2 machine on a cloud-based VPS (Digital Ocean) that has 512M of memory and 1G of swap partition. I am seeing a ton of errors like this: Aug 14 00:01:22 myhost kernel: swap_pager_getswapspace(10): failed Aug 14 00:01:22 myhost kernel: swap_pager_getswapspace(14): failed Aug 14 00:01:22 myhost kernel: swap_pager_getswapspace(11): failed Aug 14 00:01:22 myhost kernel: swap_pager_getswapspace(6): failed Aug 14 00:01:22 myhost kernel: swap_pager_getswapspace(7): failed Aug 14 00:01:22 myhost last message repeated 2 times So, I added this to fstab (after creating /usr/swap0): md99noneswapsw,file=/usr/swap000 And then did this: swapon -aq But, when I do a swapinfo, all I can see is the disk swap partition that comes standard with the VPS: Device 1K-blocks UsedAvail Capacity /dev/gpt/swapfs 1048576 456572 59200444% Add the -L (late) option to swapon. How this works might differ between 10-Release, 10-Stable, and 11. Incidentally, md99 does not have to be literal, it's just meant to get the md device number up out of the way of common interactive usage of mdconfig. So -L does fix the problem - sort of. The machine picks up the file as additional swap on boot just fine. HWOEVER, when I try to reboot or shut down the host, I get a panic telling me some noise about not being able to shutdown swap for some reason. So ... I decided to just add a second disk partition for swap and - for some reason - it works fine interactively, but upon reboot, the newly created swap partition no longer exists and gpart shows the space as free again. I tried a gpart commit, but get operation not permitted. So now I am trying to figure out how to make gpart changes stick. This may be an artifact of the way Digital Ocean droplets are set up G -- Tim Daneliuk tun...@tundraware.com PGP Key: http://www.tundraware.com/PGP/ ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Swap Questions
HI! Am 14.08.2015 um 15:15 schrieb Tim Daneliuk tun...@tundraware.com: I just built a 10.2 machine on a cloud-based VPS (Digital Ocean) that has 512M of memory and 1G of swap partition. I am seeing a ton of errors like this: [...] So, I added this to fstab (after creating /usr/swap0): Did you create it with dd or just with touch? You need to create a file that actually occupies the disk blocks with dd. HTH Patrick -- punkt.de GmbH * Kaiserallee 13a * 76133 Karlsruhe Tel. 0721 9109 0 * Fax 0721 9109 100 i...@punkt.de http://www.punkt.de Gf: Jürgen Egeling AG Mannheim 108285 ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Swap Questions
On Fri, 14 Aug 2015 15:15:26 +0200, Tim Daneliuk tun...@tundraware.com wrote: I just built a 10.2 machine on a cloud-based VPS (Digital Ocean) that has 512M of memory and 1G of swap partition. I am seeing a ton of errors like this: Aug 14 00:01:22 myhost kernel: swap_pager_getswapspace(10): failed Aug 14 00:01:22 myhost kernel: swap_pager_getswapspace(14): failed Aug 14 00:01:22 myhost kernel: swap_pager_getswapspace(11): failed Aug 14 00:01:22 myhost kernel: swap_pager_getswapspace(6): failed Aug 14 00:01:22 myhost kernel: swap_pager_getswapspace(7): failed Aug 14 00:01:22 myhost last message repeated 2 times So, I added this to fstab (after creating /usr/swap0): md99noneswapsw,file=/usr/swap0 0 0 And then did this: swapon -aq But, when I do a swapinfo, all I can see is the disk swap partition that comes standard with the VPS: Device 1K-blocks UsedAvail Capacity /dev/gpt/swapfs 1048576 456572 59200444% Two questions: 1) Is this reasonable behavior from a machine wiht 512M of memory and a 1G swap partition? I am doing things like running clamscan and buildworld at the same time. That's why I tried to add space with a file. 2) Why doesn't the extra swap disk appear in the hostinfo output. Does the /dev/md99 device exist now? Otherwise something went wrong when you tried adding swap. Try swapon -a without the -q. Ronald ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Swap Questions
On 08/14/2015 08:53 AM, Patrick M. Hausen wrote: HI! Am 14.08.2015 um 15:15 schrieb Tim Daneliuk tun...@tundraware.com: I just built a 10.2 machine on a cloud-based VPS (Digital Ocean) that has 512M of memory and 1G of swap partition. I am seeing a ton of errors like this: [...] So, I added this to fstab (after creating /usr/swap0): Did you create it with dd or just with touch? You need to create a file that actually occupies the disk blocks with dd. HTH Patrick The file was actually created, and space reserved. -- Tim Daneliuk tun...@tundraware.com PGP Key: http://www.tundraware.com/PGP/ ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Swap Questions
On 08/14/2015 08:35 AM, Ronald Klop wrote: Does the /dev/md99 device exist now? Otherwise something went wrong when you tried adding swap. Try swapon -a without the -q. Yes, the device exists and yes, swapon claims is is in use: swapon -a swapon: md99 on /usr/swap0: Device already in use But swapinfo doesn't know about it, if it is: swapinfo Device 1K-blocks UsedAvail Capacity /dev/gpt/swapfs 1048576 500300 54827648% I don't know whether this is just an artifact of how swapinfo reports things, but the system acts like it's not seeing the additional swap when it is under heavy load. The main culprit here, BTW, is clamav which chews through memory like crazy as best as I can determine, and this is a VM with only 512M of memory, hence the desire to increase swap space. -- Tim Daneliuk tun...@tundraware.com PGP Key: http://www.tundraware.com/PGP/ ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Swap Questions
On Fri, 14 Aug 2015 16:44:31 +0200, Tim Daneliuk tun...@tundraware.com wrote: On 08/14/2015 08:35 AM, Ronald Klop wrote: Does the /dev/md99 device exist now? Otherwise something went wrong when you tried adding swap. Try swapon -a without the -q. Yes, the device exists and yes, swapon claims is is in use: swapon -a swapon: md99 on /usr/swap0: Device already in use But swapinfo doesn't know about it, if it is: swapinfo Device 1K-blocks UsedAvail Capacity /dev/gpt/swapfs 1048576 500300 54827648% I don't know whether this is just an artifact of how swapinfo reports things, but the system acts like it's not seeing the additional swap when it is under heavy load. The main culprit here, BTW, is clamav which chews through memory like crazy as best as I can determine, and this is a VM with only 512M of memory, hence the desire to increase swap space. I tested this on my 11-CURRENT/amd64 laptop and I get this: # grep swap /etc/fstab /dev/gpt/swap0 noneswapsw 0 0 md99noneswapsw,file=/tmp/test 0 0 # dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/test bs=1M count=10 # swapon -a swapon: adding /dev/md99 as swap device [root@sjakie /tmp]# swapinfo Device 1K-blocks UsedAvail Capacity /dev/gpt/swap04193280 276744 3916536 7% /dev/md99 10240010240 0% Total 4203520 276744 3926776 7% Works ok for me. Regards, Ronald. ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Swap Questions
On 08/14/2015 12:39 PM, Warren Block wrote: On Fri, 14 Aug 2015, Tim Daneliuk wrote: I just built a 10.2 machine on a cloud-based VPS (Digital Ocean) that has 512M of memory and 1G of swap partition. I am seeing a ton of errors like this: Aug 14 00:01:22 myhost kernel: swap_pager_getswapspace(10): failed Aug 14 00:01:22 myhost kernel: swap_pager_getswapspace(14): failed Aug 14 00:01:22 myhost kernel: swap_pager_getswapspace(11): failed Aug 14 00:01:22 myhost kernel: swap_pager_getswapspace(6): failed Aug 14 00:01:22 myhost kernel: swap_pager_getswapspace(7): failed Aug 14 00:01:22 myhost last message repeated 2 times So, I added this to fstab (after creating /usr/swap0): md99noneswapsw,file=/usr/swap000 And then did this: swapon -aq But, when I do a swapinfo, all I can see is the disk swap partition that comes standard with the VPS: Device 1K-blocks UsedAvail Capacity /dev/gpt/swapfs 1048576 456572 59200444% Add the -L (late) option to swapon. How this works might differ between 10-Release, 10-Stable, and 11. Incidentally, md99 does not have to be literal, it's just meant to get the md device number up out of the way of common interactive usage of mdconfig. I can try that, but this still does not resolve the issue of md99 (I get that its not literal :) is not destroyed with the swapoff nor the fact that the swap file doesn't get put into use at all on boot. -- Tim Daneliuk tun...@tundraware.com PGP Key: http://www.tundraware.com/PGP/ ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Swap Questions
On Fri, 14 Aug 2015, Tim Daneliuk wrote: I just built a 10.2 machine on a cloud-based VPS (Digital Ocean) that has 512M of memory and 1G of swap partition. I am seeing a ton of errors like this: Aug 14 00:01:22 myhost kernel: swap_pager_getswapspace(10): failed Aug 14 00:01:22 myhost kernel: swap_pager_getswapspace(14): failed Aug 14 00:01:22 myhost kernel: swap_pager_getswapspace(11): failed Aug 14 00:01:22 myhost kernel: swap_pager_getswapspace(6): failed Aug 14 00:01:22 myhost kernel: swap_pager_getswapspace(7): failed Aug 14 00:01:22 myhost last message repeated 2 times So, I added this to fstab (after creating /usr/swap0): md99noneswapsw,file=/usr/swap0 0 0 And then did this: swapon -aq But, when I do a swapinfo, all I can see is the disk swap partition that comes standard with the VPS: Device 1K-blocks UsedAvail Capacity /dev/gpt/swapfs 1048576 456572 59200444% Add the -L (late) option to swapon. How this works might differ between 10-Release, 10-Stable, and 11. Incidentally, md99 does not have to be literal, it's just meant to get the md device number up out of the way of common interactive usage of mdconfig. ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Swap Questions
Tim Daneliuk tun...@tundraware.com writes: On 08/14/2015 11:38 AM, Carl Johnson wrote: I should have mentioned that I had similar problems until I added the late option to the swapfile line in fstab. I suspect that it is a general problem with swapfiles and should be in the swapfile example in the fstab(5) manpage. Would you mind posting the exact line you're using... Thanks md noneswapsw,late,file=/var/swapfile 0 0 This is on a Raspberry Pi, but I don't think that should make any difference. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Swap Questions
On 08/14/2015 10:48 AM, Carl Johnson wrote: Tim Daneliuk tun...@tundraware.com writes: On 08/14/2015 08:53 AM, Patrick M. Hausen wrote: HI! Am 14.08.2015 um 15:15 schrieb Tim Daneliuk tun...@tundraware.com: I just built a 10.2 machine on a cloud-based VPS (Digital Ocean) that has 512M of memory and 1G of swap partition. I am seeing a ton of errors like this: [...] So, I added this to fstab (after creating /usr/swap0): Did you create it with dd or just with touch? You need to create a file that actually occupies the disk blocks with dd. HTH Patrick The file was actually created, and space reserved. Try removing the md99 device with mdconfig and then run the swapon again. Now we're getting somewhere. The problem I discovered is that if I do this: 1) Remove fstab entry for swap file and reboot 2) Reinstall fstab entry for swap and swapon Voila' - it works. BUT ... if I then swapoff that disk *the md device does not go away and cannot be removed with mdcoswapon -a swapon: md99 on /usr/swap0: Device already in use nfig: mdconfig -d md99 mdconfig: file can only be used with -a I also cannot reenable it as swap again (which is why this appeared to not be working: swapon -a swapon: md99 on /usr/swap0: Device already in use IOW, the system thinks the /dev/md99 is still in use even though I have swapped it off and will neither automatically remove the device nor allow me to do so manually. Ideas anyone? (And that for all the help from you folks...) Tim Daneliuk tun...@tundraware.com PGP Key: http://www.tundraware.com/PGP/ ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Swap Questions
Tim Daneliuk tun...@tundraware.com writes: On 08/14/2015 10:48 AM, Carl Johnson wrote: Tim Daneliuk tun...@tundraware.com writes: On 08/14/2015 08:53 AM, Patrick M. Hausen wrote: HI! Am 14.08.2015 um 15:15 schrieb Tim Daneliuk tun...@tundraware.com: I just built a 10.2 machine on a cloud-based VPS (Digital Ocean) that has 512M of memory and 1G of swap partition. I am seeing a ton of errors like this: [...] So, I added this to fstab (after creating /usr/swap0): Did you create it with dd or just with touch? You need to create a file that actually occupies the disk blocks with dd. HTH Patrick The file was actually created, and space reserved. Try removing the md99 device with mdconfig and then run the swapon again. Now we're getting somewhere. The problem I discovered is that if I do this: 1) Remove fstab entry for swap file and reboot 2) Reinstall fstab entry for swap and swapon Voila' - it works. BUT ... if I then swapoff that disk *the md device does not go away and cannot be removed with mdcoswapon -a swapon: md99 on /usr/swap0: Device already in use nfig: mdconfig -d md99 mdconfig: file can only be used with -a I also cannot reenable it as swap again (which is why this appeared to not be working: swapon -a swapon: md99 on /usr/swap0: Device already in use IOW, the system thinks the /dev/md99 is still in use even though I have swapped it off and will neither automatically remove the device nor allow me to do so manually. I should have mentioned that I had similar problems until I added the late option to the swapfile line in fstab. I suspect that it is a general problem with swapfiles and should be in the swapfile example in the fstab(5) manpage. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Swap Questions
On 08/14/2015 11:38 AM, Carl Johnson wrote: I should have mentioned that I had similar problems until I added the late option to the swapfile line in fstab. I suspect that it is a general problem with swapfiles and should be in the swapfile example in the fstab(5) manpage. Would you mind posting the exact line you're using... Thanks -- Tim Daneliuk tun...@tundraware.com PGP Key: http://www.tundraware.com/PGP/ ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Swap Questions
Tim Daneliuk tun...@tundraware.com writes: On 08/14/2015 08:53 AM, Patrick M. Hausen wrote: HI! Am 14.08.2015 um 15:15 schrieb Tim Daneliuk tun...@tundraware.com: I just built a 10.2 machine on a cloud-based VPS (Digital Ocean) that has 512M of memory and 1G of swap partition. I am seeing a ton of errors like this: [...] So, I added this to fstab (after creating /usr/swap0): Did you create it with dd or just with touch? You need to create a file that actually occupies the disk blocks with dd. HTH Patrick The file was actually created, and space reserved. Try removing the md99 device with mdconfig and then run the swapon again. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
