Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2008 15:19:53 +0400 (MSD) From: Dmitry Morozovsky <marck@rinet.ru> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@freebsd.org> Cc: Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>, delphij@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: tmpfs panic Message-ID: <20080615151820.L43777@woozle.rinet.ru> In-Reply-To: <4854F8D0.802@FreeBSD.org> References: <20080615130037.J43777@woozle.rinet.ru> <20080615101918.GA94309@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> <20080615145943.X43777@woozle.rinet.ru> <4854F8D0.802@FreeBSD.org>
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On Sun, 15 Jun 2008, Kris Kennaway wrote: KK> > Well, but loader(8) man page said: KK> > The default of 32MB allows the kernel to support a maximum of ~7GB of KK> > swap. KK> > and I have only 4G, and system freezes with maxswzone exaustion well KK> > before that... KK> KK> I think swap zone memory use is dependent on the allocation pattern (i.e. KK> load dependent), so "a maximum" of 7GB might be the best case scenario (or KK> it could be wrong, e.g. on amd64). This is one of the factors that makes it KK> hard to tune the value of maxswzone. I see; I just doubleed the value to 64M, let's see what happened. BTW, usage pattern to stress tmpfs is cvs2svn on FreeBSD ports repository, together with some rsyncs ;-) Sincerely, D.Marck [DM5020, MCK-RIPE, DM3-RIPN] [ FreeBSD committer: marck@FreeBSD.org ] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *** Dmitry Morozovsky --- D.Marck --- Wild Woozle --- marck@rinet.ru *** ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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