Re: 12.0-ALPHA5 - ZFS default ARC max apparently forcing system to run out of memory

From: Allan Jude <allanjude_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2018 23:00:31 -0400
On 2018-09-27 18:01, Rebecca Cran wrote:
> I'm running 12.0-ALPHA5 on a laptop which has 32GB RAM and 2GB swap.
> I've found it running out of memory when building ports via synth: I
> think I've also seen it when running a buildworld. Johannes on
> FreeBSDDesktop suggested it might be related to ZFS, and setting
> vfs.zfs.arc_max to 8GB *does* appear to have resolved the problem.
> 
> 
> Shortly after running out of memory (with |"swap_pager_getswapspace(32):
> failed" messages)|, the first few lines of 'top' were:
> 
> 
> Mem: 4335M Active, 4854M Inact, 7751M Laundry, 9410M Wired, 48K Buf,
> 5332M Free
> 
> ARC: 5235M Total, 4169M MFU, 497M MRU, 172K Anon, 97M Header, 471M Other
> 
>      3479M Compressed, 5930M Uncompressed, 1.70:1 Ratio
> 
> Swap: 2048M Total, 2009M Used, 39M Free, 98% Inuse
> 
> 
> 
> I've not seen this happen before on ZFS systems, so is it a regression
> in 12?
> 
> 

It doesn't appear like ZFS is dominating memory usage there. Using less
than the 8GB you indicated that setting the max to solved the problem...

-- 
Allan Jude


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