From owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org Sat Sep 14 18:29:33 2019 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@mailman.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6A92FBA77 for ; Sat, 14 Sep 2019 18:29:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jmg@gold.funkthat.com) Received: from gold.funkthat.com (gate2.funkthat.com [208.87.223.18]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "gate2.funkthat.com", Issuer "Let's Encrypt Authority X3" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 46W1Hv5R0Hz4HTT for ; Sat, 14 Sep 2019 18:29:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jmg@gold.funkthat.com) Received: from gold.funkthat.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gold.funkthat.com (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTPS id x8EISvjM089596 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NO); Sat, 14 Sep 2019 11:28:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jmg@gold.funkthat.com) Received: (from jmg@localhost) by gold.funkthat.com (8.15.2/8.15.2/Submit) id x8EISvu9089595; Sat, 14 Sep 2019 11:28:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jmg) Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2019 11:28:57 -0700 From: John-Mark Gurney To: Kurt Jaeger Cc: FreeBSD Current Subject: Re: poudriere, swap full and top says memory is free ? Message-ID: <20190914182857.GM96402@funkthat.com> Mail-Followup-To: Kurt Jaeger , FreeBSD Current References: <20190914173805.GC2863@home.opsec.eu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20190914173805.GC2863@home.opsec.eu> X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 11.0-RELEASE-p7 amd64 X-PGP-Fingerprint: D87A 235F FB71 1F3F 55B7 ED9B D5FF 5A51 C0AC 3D65 X-Files: The truth is out there X-URL: https://www.funkthat.com/ X-Resume: https://www.funkthat.com/~jmg/resume.html X-TipJar: bitcoin:13Qmb6AeTgQecazTWph4XasEsP7nGRbAPE X-to-the-FBI-CIA-and-NSA: HI! HOW YA DOIN? can i haz chizburger? User-Agent: Mutt/1.6.1 (2016-04-27) X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.4.3 (gold.funkthat.com [127.0.0.1]); Sat, 14 Sep 2019 11:28:57 -0700 (PDT) X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 46W1Hv5R0Hz4HTT X-Spamd-Bar: / Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; dkim=none; dmarc=none; spf=none (mx1.freebsd.org: domain of jmg@gold.funkthat.com has no SPF policy when checking 208.87.223.18) smtp.mailfrom=jmg@gold.funkthat.com X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-0.42 / 15.00]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-0.95)[-0.954,0]; MID_RHS_MATCH_FROM(0.00)[]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; RCVD_TLS_ALL(0.00)[]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; DMARC_NA(0.00)[funkthat.com]; AUTH_NA(1.00)[]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-0.93)[-0.927,0]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_SOME(0.00)[]; TO_DN_ALL(0.00)[]; IP_SCORE(-0.74)[ip: (-1.91), ipnet: 208.87.216.0/21(-0.95), asn: 32354(-0.76), country: US(-0.05)]; RCPT_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2]; R_SPF_NA(0.00)[]; FORGED_SENDER(0.30)[jmg@funkthat.com,jmg@gold.funkthat.com]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+]; R_DKIM_NA(0.00)[]; ASN(0.00)[asn:32354, ipnet:208.87.216.0/21, country:US]; SUBJECT_ENDS_QUESTION(1.00)[]; FROM_NEQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[jmg@funkthat.com,jmg@gold.funkthat.com]; RCVD_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2] X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2019 18:29:34 -0000 Kurt Jaeger wrote this message on Sat, Sep 14, 2019 at 19:38 +0200: > - a poudriere build > - of a list of ports > - on 12.0-RELEASE-p10 > - on a 4 core+4 hyperthreads CPU, an Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1230 v6 > @ 3.50GHz > - with 32 GB RAM > - zpool with 2x 500 GB SSDs as a mirror > > and right now, this can be seen: > > last pid: 90922; load averages: 5.02, 5.14, 5.73 up 0+03:53:08 19:31:05 > 82 processes: 6 running, 76 sleeping > CPU: 60.6% user, 0.0% nice, 2.1% system, 0.0% interrupt, 37.3% idle > Mem: 4598M Active, 2854M Inact, 11G Laundry, 6409M Wired, 6375M Free > ARC: 3850M Total, 1721M MFU, 2090M MRU, 665K Anon, 19M Header, 19M Other > 3406M Compressed, 3942M Uncompressed, 1.16:1 Ratio > Swap: 18G Total, 18G Used, 396K Free, 99% Inuse, 68K In > > So: Swap is full, approx. 6 GB memory is reported as free. > > This is surprising. Can I somehow tune this in any way, so that > the memory available is used for the build ? Or is the problem somewhere > else ? Are you sure that this hasn't just recently completed a large link of something like Chromium? There are known to be compiles that can take many GB's of memory and if they recently exited, there hasn't been time to swap stuff back in... or is this the steady state over the entire compile? -- John-Mark Gurney Voice: +1 415 225 5579 "All that I will do, has been done, All that I have, has not."