Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2003 12:13:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Jirsa <jeff@unixconsults.com> To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Rickard_Borgm=E4ster?= <doktorn@sub.nu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why has my swap pager gone nuts? Message-ID: <20030408121038.O46410-100000@boris.st.hmc.edu> In-Reply-To: <20030408210045.G2840-100000@studsboll.realworld.nu>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 8 Apr 2003, [ISO-8859-1] Rickard Borgm=E4ster wrote: > On Tue, 8 Apr 2003, Kirk Strauser wrote: > > > At 2003-04-08T13:30:41Z, Borgmaster <ribo6611@student.uu.se> writes: > > > > > I know that one is supposed to have twice swap as physical RAM, but i= s > > > that really necessary on my single user workstation? > > > > Few things are *necessary*, but some are *highly desirable*. FreeBSD's > > paging algorithm is optimized for swap =3D 2*RAM. Allocating less swap= causes > > it to use less efficient routines. > > I know that, but I think I do have enough memory. I've stripped out most > daemons now and the system idles at 380M free memory. But as soon as I > start something that uses "make" it takes about ~20 sec for 90% of the > memory to go away. This is not a swapper problem either, something else i= s > fucked up. I watched "top -o size" while the memory went away. Largest > loaded process was "top" itself at 2.5M. But the number of processes rise > sky high. A dump from "ps -ax" gives the following result, which maybe > will give us some other ideas on what's wrong? > > 88861 v1 I+ 0:00,00 /bin/sh -ec cd /usr/ports/x11-fonts/Xft && make= 'CKSU Something's busted with this make, and it's causing an infinite recursive loop. I vaguely recall hearing something about it earlier last week, although I don't remember the specifics. There's far too many make/sort processes shown to be 'normal'. cvsup your ports, and try it again. - - Jeff -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+kx9D1ZEy6nYcOF4RAnF3AJ9SFoQRoearqD63Uas8QFBIw4OddgCffaXT WGMQwlba34mv3icRMZNwjdM=3D =3DMMAe -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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