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Date:      Tue, 5 Jun 2018 17:48:08 -0400
From:      Mark Johnston <markj@freebsd.org>
To:        Lev Serebryakov <lev@freebsd.org>
Cc:        gljennjohn@gmail.com, FreeBSD current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: swapping is completely broken in -CURRENT r334649?
Message-ID:  <20180605214808.GA94301@pesky>
In-Reply-To: <2925b27f-43cf-8813-eaa7-4f3d12bef8f0@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <d3ee2b8f-bdbe-ce25-f496-6267f9bb0212@FreeBSD.org> <20180605181716.73b8ea91@ernst.home> <2925b27f-43cf-8813-eaa7-4f3d12bef8f0@FreeBSD.org>

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On Wed, Jun 06, 2018 at 12:22:08AM +0300, Lev Serebryakov wrote:
> On 05.06.2018 19:17, Gary Jennejohn wrote:
> 
> 
> > I complained about this also and alc@ gave me this hint:
> > 	sysctl vm.pageout_update_period=0
> 
>  Really, situation is worse than stated in subject, because processes
> are being killed AFTER memory pressure, when here are a lot of free
> memory already!
> 
>  It looks like very serious bug.

The issue was identified earlier this week and is being worked on. It's
a regression from r329882 which appears only on certain hardware. You
can probably work around it by setting vm.pageout_oom_seq to a large
value (try 1000 for instance), though this will make the "true" OOM
killer take longer to kick in. The problem is unrelated to the
pageout_update_period.



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