Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2015 15:35:09 +0200 From: "Ronald Klop" <ronald-lists@klop.ws> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Swap Questions Message-ID: <op.x3c1cvetkndu52@53555a16.cm-6-6b.dynamic.ziggo.nl> In-Reply-To: <55CDE9EE.5090603@tundraware.com> References: <55CDE9EE.5090603@tundraware.com>
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On Fri, 14 Aug 2015 15:15:26 +0200, Tim Daneliuk <tundra@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): > > md99 none swap sw,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 Used Avail Capacity > /dev/gpt/swapfs 1048576 456572 592004 44% > > > > 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
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