Re: swapping is completely broken in -CURRENT r334649?

Hi!

> > > The change was committed as r334752.  Are you seeing unexpected OOM
> > > kills on or after that revision?
> > 
> > When I tried to run a qemu-based poudriere run yesterday on a r334918
> > box, it killed a few processes outside of that run and did not
> > work out.
> > 
> > I'm unsure it was because of that problem or a problem with qemu.
> 
> How much memory and swap does the guest have?

It's started by poudriere, I do not really know.

> Were you consistently able to complete a run before?

Two years ago, on a much lower version of FreeBSD, yes.

I just started it again, and after a while the qemu-ppc64-static
was at approx. 23 GB memory and increasing, without much progress.

> If it's happening during a poudriere run, it may well have been a true
> OOM situation.  The patch below prints a few stats to the dmesg before
> the kill.  The output of that together with "sysctl vm" output should be
> enough to determine what's happening.
> 
> diff --git a/sys/vm/vm_pageout.c b/sys/vm/vm_pageout.c
> index 264c98203c51..9c7ebcf451ec 100644
> --- a/sys/vm/vm_pageout.c
> +++ b/sys/vm/vm_pageout.c
> _at__at_ -1670,6 +1670,8 _at__at_ vm_pageout_mightbe_oom(struct vm_domain *vmd, int page_shortage,
>  	 * start OOM.  Initiate the selection and signaling of the
>  	 * victim.
>  	 */
> +	printf("v_free_count: %u, v_inactive_count: %u\n",
> +	    vmd->vmd_free_count, vmd->vmd_pagequeues[PQ_INACTIVE].pq_cnt);
>  	vm_pageout_oom(VM_OOM_MEM);
>  
>  	/*

I'll have a look at this.

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