On Mon, Mar 18, 2019 at 6:23 PM Andriy Gapon <avg_at_freebsd.org> wrote: > > > First, a note that this was observed on a system that runs a fairly old current > (~ 1 year old) with a fairly long uptime (> 6 months). > I noticed that the system was nearly out of memory, 98% of swap was in use, > there was less than 1 GB of free memory, several GBs of each of active, inactive > and laundry memory, and many GBs of wired (mostly ZFS). > I decided to pro-actively reboot the system, but to speed that up I put the > system to the single-user mode (via shutdown) and then back to multi-user. So, > there was no real hardware reboot and the kernel kept running. However, all > userland processes were terminated. > > To my surprise, even while in the single-user mode the swap utilization didn't > go below 70%. Also, laundry memory remained in multi-GB area, but let's ignore > this for now. > > I think that the swap could be used only for anonymous memory, so I expected it > go to zero after the shutdown to the single user mode. > Does anyone have any ideas? > Maybe that's something that has already been fixed? > If not, any ideas on what to look for? > Thanks! > Not this? ZFS use wired and not clean only reboot? https://reviews.freebsd.org/D7538?id=25108Received on Mon Mar 18 2019 - 17:01:33 UTC
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