Re: Unused swap

[Lars von den Driesch]

On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 11:50 PM, Barry Grumbine
barry.grumb...@gmail.com wrote:
 I ran into the same problem.  Was running into the datasize-cur=512M
 limit in the staff section of login.conf

 I'm not saying this is the right thing to do, but I bumped it to 1024M
 and haven't had a firefox seg-fault since.  This is a system I use as
 my desktop, so I'm not concerned with other staff causing problems.

Yeah, I figured it out as well after Constantines pointer to
login.conf. I started with unlimited but rolled it back to 2048MB.
This is just my test machine that I use as desktop as well. So I am
the only one using it.

Thanks all for your help

Lars

Re: Unused swap

[Lars von den Driesch]

Hi again,

I just followed the FAQ 14.5.3 and created a swap file and added it to
the system. Unfortunately this didn't help.

Thanks again

Lars

On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 12:28 AM, Lars von den Driesch
larsvondendrie...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hi
 I just discovered another strangeness on my installation. Firefox
 keeps seg-faulting on me when I have a lot of tabs open with webpages
 that draw a lot of memory. This is easy to reproduce - I just open
 engadget.com more often and open subsites by clicking randomly on that
 page.
 When I start firefox from xterm it gives me an out of memory error
 after a while and writes a core file to disk. This led me looking to
 my swap partition when I discovered that swap seems to be unused on
 this system although it exists and the system seems to know about it.
 It just isn't filled when needed.
 This is a snapshot on amd64 from 7 Jan. The partitions  were created
 during initial install. So this might have been a problem from the
 beginning but I discovered it now because I am using the system more
 often lately.
 I have found an ancient bugreport from 1999 for sparc/1007 reporting
 exactly this but this is basically the only thing I found about this
 topic. So I believe I am missing something obvious again that only me
 would be able to fall over ;-)

 Thanks
 Lars

 -swapctl -l this display never changes
 Device  512-blocks UsedAvail Capacity  Priority
 /dev/sd0b  93740810  9374081 0%0


 -systat swap gives me this but this display never ever changes
 5 usersLoad 0.13 0.16 0.47 Sat Jan 12 00:03:07 2013
 DISK 512-blocks   USED  10\ 20\ 30\
 40\ 50\ 60\ 70\ 80\ 90\100\
 sd0b9374081  0

 -disklabel /dev/sd0c
 #size   offset  fstype [fsize bsize  cpg]
   a:615763200   64  4.2BSD   4096 327681 # /
   b:  9374081615763264swap   # none

 -fstab
 c6dfab3c9cca1a9c.b none swap sw
 c6dfab3c9cca1a9c.a / ffs rw 1 1

 -dmesg
 OpenBSD 5.2-current (GENERIC.MP) #12: Mon Jan  7 07:59:56 MST 2013
 dera...@amd64.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC.MP
 real mem = 4157472768 (3964MB)
 avail mem = 4024295424 (3837MB)
 mainbus0 at root
 bios0 at mainbus0: SMBIOS rev. 2.4 @ 0xf0100 (57 entries)
 bios0: vendor Award Software International, Inc. version F11 date 09/16/2009
 bios0: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. GA-MA78GM-S2H
 acpi0 at bios0: rev 0
 acpi0: sleep states S0 S3 S4 S5
 acpi0: tables DSDT FACP SSDT HPET MCFG APIC
 acpi0: wakeup devices USB0(S3) USB1(S3) USB2(S3) USB3(S3) USB4(S3)
 USB5(S3) USB6(S3) SBAZ(S4) P2P_(S5) PCE2(S4) PCE3(S4) PCE4(S4)
 PCE5(S4) PCE6(S4) PCE7(S4) PCE9(S4) PCEA(S4) PCEB(S4) PCEC(S4)
 PS2M(S5) PS2K(S5) PCI0(S5)
 acpitimer0 at acpi0: 3579545 Hz, 32 bits
 acpihpet0 at acpi0: 14318180 Hz
 acpimcfg0 at acpi0 addr 0xe000, bus 0-255
 acpimadt0 at acpi0 addr 0xfee0: PC-AT compat
 cpu0 at mainbus0: apid 0 (boot processor)
 cpu0: AMD Athlon(tm) Dual Core Processor 4850e, 2511.77 MHz
 cpu0: 
 FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CFLUSH,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,HTT,SSE3,CX16,NXE,MMXX,FFXSR,LONG,3DNOW2,3DNOW,LAHF,CMPLEG,SVM,EAPICSP,AMCR8,3DNOWP
 cpu0: 64KB 64b/line 2-way I-cache, 64KB 64b/line 2-way D-cache, 512KB
 64b/line 16-way L2 cache
 cpu0: ITLB 32 4KB entries fully associative, 8 4MB entries fully associative
 cpu0: DTLB 32 4KB entries fully associative, 8 4MB entries fully associative
 cpu0: apic clock running at 200MHz
 cpu1 at mainbus0: apid 1 (application processor)
 cpu1: AMD Athlon(tm) Dual Core Processor 4850e, 2511.44 MHz
 cpu1: 
 FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CFLUSH,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,HTT,SSE3,CX16,NXE,MMXX,FFXSR,LONG,3DNOW2,3DNOW,LAHF,CMPLEG,SVM,EAPICSP,AMCR8,3DNOWP
 cpu1: 64KB 64b/line 2-way I-cache, 64KB 64b/line 2-way D-cache, 512KB
 64b/line 16-way L2 cache
 cpu1: ITLB 32 4KB entries fully associative, 8 4MB entries fully associative
 cpu1: DTLB 32 4KB entries fully associative, 8 4MB entries fully associative
 ioapic0 at mainbus0: apid 2 pa 0xfec0, version 21, 24 pins
 ioapic0: misconfigured as apic 0, remapped to apid 2
 acpiprt0 at acpi0: bus 0 (PCI0)
 acpiprt1 at acpi0: bus 3 (P2P_)
 acpiprt2 at acpi0: bus -1 (PCE2)
 acpiprt3 at acpi0: bus -1 (PCE3)
 acpiprt4 at acpi0: bus -1 (PCE4)
 acpiprt5 at acpi0: bus -1 (PCE5)
 acpiprt6 at acpi0: bus -1 (PCE6)
 acpiprt7 at acpi0: bus -1 (PCE7)
 acpiprt8 at acpi0: bus -1 (PCE9)
 acpiprt9 at acpi0: bus 2 (PCEA)
 acpiprt10 at acpi0: bus -1 (PCEB)
 acpiprt11 at acpi0: bus -1 (PCEC)
 acpiprt12 at acpi0: bus 1 (AGP_)
 acpicpu0 at acpi0: PSS
 acpicpu1 at acpi0: PSS
 acpibtn0 at acpi0: PWRB
 cpu0: PowerNow! K8 2511 MHz: speeds: 2500 2400 2200 2000 1800 1000 MHz
 pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0
 0:0:0: mem address conflict 0xe000/0x2000
 pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0 AMD RS780 Host rev 0x00
 ppb0 at pci0 dev

Re: Strange ksh history behaviour

[Lars von den Driesch]

Hi,

On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 2:54 PM, Sébastien Marie
semarie-open...@latrappe.fr wrote:

 It is the documented behaviour in ksh(1) :-)

 You could see the EDITOR variable comment in ksh(1):

Well, what can I say :-) It was late and I was tired or my english is
crap and didn't understand... ;-)


 EDITOR
If the VISUAL parameter is not set, this parameter controls
the command-line editing mode for interactive shells.

 And as arrow-keys are not used by the 'vi'-like command-line editing...

 What am I missing here? Can someone confirm this?

 You need to set your command-line editing mode to emacs.

 In order to keep EDITOR to vi, you should set VISUAL to emacs in your 
 .profile:

 VISUAL=emacs
 EDITOR=vi
 export VISUAL EDITOR

Thanks, a lot for the help. This really solved it. Who would have
guessed - one more time where the man pages proved to be right :-D

Again, thanks for the help

Lars