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Date:      Tue, 16 May 2017 22:55:47 -0400
From:      David Mehler <dave.mehler@gmail.com>
To:        Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: swap_pager on cloud server
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Hello,

Here's the mdconfig output:

#mdconfig -lv
md0     swap      512M
md98    vnode    1739M  /swapfile1
md99    vnode    1012M  /swapfile


Any idea why this is freezing? I've not made server changes.

Thanks.
Dave.


On 5/16/17, Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 9:30 PM, David Mehler <dave.mehler@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Here's my swapinfo, though it was obtained after a server reboot, it
>> froze
>> up.
>>
>> #swapinfo
>> Device          1K-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity
>> /dev/md98         1780352       36  1780316     0%
>> /dev/md99         1036216       44  1036172     0%
>> Total             2816568       80  2816488     0%
>>
>
> And what is the output of:
> # mdconfig -lv
>
> The short answer though is use a real swap device eg a separate "real" disk
> or partition.  Even having no swap device is better than the above config
> when under memory pressure.
>
> --
> Adam
>



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