FreeBSD using swap even though there's a lot of free memory

[Polytropon]

On Mon, 19 Oct 2020 20:36:10 -0700, David Christensen wrote:
> Updates and upgrades have broken my systems more times than I care to 
> remember.  Now, I take an image of the system drive before upgrading a 
> machine.  If an upgrade misbehaves, hopefully I will catch it quickly 
> and can simply go back to the previous image.  Otherwise, I need to 
> include backup/ restore of system configuration files and/or data when 
> re-imaging.

This is a great opportunity to integrate ZFS-based BEs (boot
environments) into the workflow. They allow you to easily
revert back changes caused by updates if required.



> Perhaps you should consider setting up a staging/ testing environment, 
> update/ upgrade that, and run tests.  If everything looks good, then 
> upgrade the production environment.

This is also possible, and often a good suggestion, if you
can actually create such a "secondary environment"; if you
have to do everything in "live mode", BEs are probably the
best solution.




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