Re: 11.0-CURRENT r290273: installer fails with "out of swap space" error

From: Mark Martinec <Mark.Martinec+freebsd_at_ijs.si> Date: Tue, 03 Nov 2015 23:45:32 +0100 · This archive was generated by hypermail 2.4.0 : Wed May 19 2021 - 11:41:00 UTC

On 2015-11-03 21:50, Maxim Pugachev wrote:
> I tried to install r29273 into Parallels VM, but got an error on
> "distextract" stage. Here is the last messages from bsdinstall_log:
> 
> DEBUG: f_debug_init: ARGV=[distextract] GETOPTS_STDARGS=[dD:]
> DEBUG: f_debug_init: debug=[1] debugFile=[/tmp/bsdinstall_log]
> DEBUG: Running installation step: distextract
> Killed
> 
> Last message from /var/log/messages:
> 
> Nov  3 20:02:9  kernel: pid 967 (distextract), uid 0, was killed: out
> of swap space
> 
> My VM has 2 gigs of memory, vmstat tells that I have ~537M free
> (swapinfo tells nothing). I dunno is it a bug or I'm doing something
> wrong.

Looks like the same issue as reported a year and a half ago:

https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2014-January/076732.html

   Mark