Leak in file backed swap

[Peter Jeremy]

On 2017-Feb-02 15:59:36 +0100, Giulio Ferro <auryn at zirakzigil.org> wrote:
>FreeBSD 11-Stable recent build.
>
>I've set up a FreeBSD instance in AWS with 1GB RAM.
>
>and I created a 1GB file under /usr on the instance FS and proceeded to 
>mount it as swap.
>
>Even if the machine isn't doing anything, after one day or less the 
>machine becomes unresponsive

I've used swap to UFS and swap to NFS on a number of hosts without
problem.  If your /usr was on ZFS then this is a known issue (ZFS
is CoW and there are known problems dealing with RAM shortage).  If
not, can you please give more precise details of your configuration.

-- 
Peter Jeremy
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