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

From: Maxim Pugachev <pugachev.mm_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2015 10:15:24 +0300
Well, looks like something is wrong with CURRENT. I just tested
10.2-RELEASE, and everything works fine. So, summing up:

10.2-RELEASE works fine with 2Gb of memory
11.0-CURRENT r290273 fails with 2Gb
11.0-CURRENT r290273 works fine with 4Gb

On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 9:19 AM, Maxim Pugachev <pugachev.mm_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> Mark,
>
> Yes, thanks, I'll try to test it with 4GB.
> Forgot to mention that I use "auto" setup: entire disk for UFS.
> Installer fails when extracting kernel.txz
>
> On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 1:45 AM, Mark Martinec
> <Mark.Martinec+freebsd_at_ijs.si> wrote:
>> 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
Received on Wed Nov 04 2015 - 06:15:44 UTC

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