Re: adding swap when expanding root filesystem
- In reply to: Mike Karels : "adding swap when expanding root filesystem"
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Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2022 07:15:48 UTC
Hi Mike, On Mon, Nov 07, 2022 at 10:10:38AM -0600, Mike Karels wrote: > This question is not really arm-specific, but I couldn't think of a better > mailing list for it. > > There are peridic issues reported on small systems like Raspberry Pi > where people are running buildworld or poudriere and running out of > memory. As the user gets no control over the disk layout when installing, > there is no option to add swap space on the install image. I have added > swap space on a USB disk, but this is often not an option. It occurred > to me that it might be reasonable to add swap space before expanding > the root filesystem if there is sufficient space. I have a prototype, > and wondered if this is a good thing to do. Granted, this will often > create swap on microSD, which is not optimal, but probably better than > nothing. > > The current prototype creates a swap partition which is 1/10 of the disk > if the disk is at least 15 GB and the initial root partition is no more > than 1/3 of the disk, but only up to 1.5x of physical memory. I would > probably enable this by default, but provide a way to disable it via a > kenv variable and/or a variable in /etc/rc.conf. > > Thoughts? > > Mike That would be very welcomed addition. I personally ofter run into problems when I try get a crash dump from my RPi4, since no dumpdev can be set without a separate swap partion. An USB stick worked for I while, but it just went dead at some point. And the genet(4) driver doesn't support netdump(4). --Gordon