Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 12:36:53 +0200 From: Andriy Gapon <avg@FreeBSD.org> To: Volodymyr Kostyrko <c.kworr@gmail.com>, "Nagy, Attila" <bra@fsn.hu>, freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Lot more swapping in stable/10 with ZFS Message-ID: <52E8D9C5.6020702@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <52E8D7E3.9040200@gmail.com> References: <52E4DE17.3000206@fsn.hu> <52E7CEB8.7010906@gmail.com> <52E7DBC9.6000708@FreeBSD.org> <52E8AAC3.3040300@fsn.hu> <52E8D7E3.9040200@gmail.com>
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on 29/01/2014 12:28 Volodymyr Kostyrko said the following: > I'll rather wait for a couple of days of run time as my load includes heavy disk > usage at night and running a couple of VM's (VirtualBox) during a day. Probably > VirtualBox is the root cause of high swap size because when starting/restoring a > VM it allocates a lot of memory during a very short time period. [This is offtopic for this list...] VirtualBox could be a reason, but it is not to blame, IMO. VirtualBox needs to allocate some amount of contiguous physical memory. It's really not too much (2MB or 4MB), but if there is no suitable free chunk, then FreeBSD could end up cleaning _all_ inactive memory and much less likely all active memory. For file backed pages it means that file/page cache is purged, but all malloc-ed memory would go to swap. -- Andriy Gapon
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