Is maximum swap usage tunable?

[bob prohaska]

On Tue, Mar 06, 2018 at 01:27:10PM -0500, Mike wrote:
> On 3/5/2018 1:33 PM, bob prohaska wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 05, 2018 at 09:59:15AM -0500, Mike wrote:
> >[snip]
> >> I plan to try again, same hardware but with 2GB swap space.
> >>
> > Please post what you learn...
> 
> The compile stopped in the middle of build-worls.  Here are the last
> things in the build log:
[snip]
> 
> 
How big did the build log get? Mine usually stop a little shy of
2 MB, with troubles appearing after around 1.6 MB.

> 
> The Pi3 was hung.  No response to keyboard or ssh.
> 
> There were some messages in what appeared to be a looping scroll on the
> console.  I was able to get a fuzzy pic, here:
> https://archive.mgm51.com/fbsd-build.jpg

Never seen that on my machines, it looks like a kernel panic.

> 
> 
> /var/log/messages had nothing odd except for:
> 
> =====
> 
[snippage]
> 
> ======
> 
> The entries before 11:37 were during boot-up.  The 11:37 entries were
> around the time the RPi3 hung.

Looks normal, if not good, to me.

> 
> 
> Oh yeah...
> 
> # uname -a
> FreeBSD rpi3 12.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 12.0-CURRENT #0 r330034: Mon Feb 26
> 22:51:01 UTC 2018
> root at releng3.nyi.freebsd.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/arm64.aarch64/sys/GENERIC
> arm64
> 
> Note sure how to show the version of source it was building, suggestions?
> 

svnlite info /usr/src will give the source revision.

hth, and thanks for writing!

bob prohaska