Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 12:41:37 +0100 From: Mats Lindberg <mats.w.lindberg@gmail.com> To: Mark Tinguely <marktinguely@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6 vs 8.1 Message-ID: <AANLkTi=Gx=YZ%2BZr0q%2BFZ8mcbQyGhjZPSYm6de4ZVwSwx@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4D7DFC6F.80008@gmail.com> References: <AANLkTi=23g1%2BKv%2B4Pmda3-75-r13GaRFu1_Mtofej3RJ@mail.gmail.com> <4D7DFC6F.80008@gmail.com>
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No - not from what I understand in the vmware it looks like a real disk device /dev/ad0s1e in the nfsroot'ed system I actually have 'of=/opt/something' which is definately to the nfs disk. 2011/3/14 Mark Tinguely <marktinguely@gmail.com> > On 3/14/2011 6:17 AM, Mats Lindberg wrote: > >> All >> I am migrating from FreeBSD 6.3 to FreeBSD 8.1 And I have noticed some, >> what >> I think is, strange behaviour. >> >> In FreeBSD 6.3 when I do >> >>> swapoff -a >>> dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/whatever bs=1G count=1 >>> >> I get something like "out of memory - killed" >> >> In FreeBSD 8.1 doing the same - processes around start to die, e.g. all >> getty's are killed and finally devfs goes the same way. >> >> My target is diskless nfs mounted to a linux fileserver - hence no swap >> partition >> It does not seem to be relalted to the nfs root however - I get the same >> behaviour running FBSD-8.1 in a VMWARE server session. >> >> Is this a new 'feature' of FBSD or just a bug? >> Are there some sysctl's to set to 'really' turn of swapping. >> >> At one instance I also got a kernel panic saying 'page fault in kernel' >> but >> I'm having a hard time to repeat just that. >> >> regards >> Mats >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org >> " >> >> Do you have /tmp mounted on a memory filesystem? > > --Mark Tinguely > >
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