swap space issues

[Donald Wilde]

On 6/25/20, Paul Mather <paul at gromit.dlib.vt.edu> wrote:
> On Jun 24, 2020, at 11:34 PM, Donald Wilde <dwilde1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> I think I've missed in this thread where you said which FreeBSD arch you are
> running: is it FreeBSD/amd64 or FreeBSD/i386?  (With an "old" machine, 4 GB
> RAM, and an install still using MBR, it could potentially be FreeBSD/i386.)
>
Sorry, Paul. You're right, I didn't say. amd64. Here's 'uname -a'

FreeBSD Synergy000010 12.1-STABLE FreeBSD 12.1-STABLE r362500
LIBERTYSERVER  amd64

> If it is FreeBSD/i386, there is a precedent for it having problems with
> configuring large amounts of swap.  However, it is usually related to having
> relatively little RAM, too (large amounts of swap space means the OS needs
> to use more RAM to keep track of it).
>
That's good to know, Paul. I am once again doing embedded work, which
means I will be coding 32-bit ARM M7's soon enough.

Here's 'pstat -s' on the i3 (which registers as cpu HAMMER):

Device          1K-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity
/dev/ada0s1b     33554432        0 33554432     0%
/dev/ada0s1d     33554432        0 33554432     0%
Total            67108864        0 67108864     0%





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