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Date:      Sun, 15 Jun 2008 14:12:52 +0300
From:      Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>
To:        Dmitry Morozovsky <marck@rinet.ru>
Cc:        delphij@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: tmpfs panic
Message-ID:  <20080615111252.GC94309@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua>
In-Reply-To: <20080615145943.X43777@woozle.rinet.ru>
References:  <20080615130037.J43777@woozle.rinet.ru> <20080615101918.GA94309@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> <20080615145943.X43777@woozle.rinet.ru>

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On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 03:05:45PM +0400, Dmitry Morozovsky wrote:
> On Sun, 15 Jun 2008, Kostik Belousov wrote:
>=20
> KB> On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 01:06:24PM +0400, Dmitry Morozovsky wrote:
> KB> > Hi there,
> KB> >=20
> KB> > at contemporary RELENG_7/amd64
>=20
> [snip]
>=20
>=20
> KB> I suspect this may be my mistake.
> KB> IN case you can reproduce it, please, try the patch below.
>=20
> Will try, thank you.=20
>=20
> KB> > Also, active tmpfs usage easy leads to "swap zone exhausted, increa=
se
> KB> > kern.maxswzone", even with 2G RAM + 4G swap and approx 2-3G of tmpfs
> KB> > in use -- any hints?
> KB>=20
> KB> I think the message is pretty much self-explanatory. Kernel tried to
> KB> allocate the meatadata to track the swap metadata, and zone appears
> KB> exhausted. It is not the swap space shortage. Instead, this is kernel
> KB> zone used to track swap allocation shortage.
> KB>=20
> KB> It is quite non-obvious how to automatically tune this limit, since z=
one
> KB> is allocated before swap is configured.
>=20
> Well, but loader(8) man page said:
>   The default of 32MB allows the kernel to support a maximum of ~7GB of s=
wap.=20
>=20
> and I have only 4G, and system freezes with maxswzone exaustion well befo=
re=20
> that...
I suspect that the estimation both outdated and arch-specific (i.e. at
least divide it by two for amd64).

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