On Tue, Jan 01, 2019 at 03:14:26PM -0800, Mark Millard wrote: > > > On 2019-Jan-1, at 10:21, bob prohaska <fbsd AT www.zefox.net> wrote: > > > On Tue, Dec 18, 2018 at 09:49:03AM -0800, bob prohaska wrote: > > > > > > As a further test, I'ved added two additional USB flash swap devices and am > > re-running > > the compilation of www/chromium. The swap layout is quite lopsided, with > > the USB flash > > devices having only 2 GB swap partitions on each, contrasting to the 4 GB > > swap partitions > > on the microSD card and mechanical disk. > > > > The first oddity is that top doesn't seem to see the extra swap space, > > reporting only > > 7192M total. > > If you start top before changing the swap space (swapon or > swapoff), top does not change to match: it does not monitor > the swap space total size over time. But I've no other clue > to the ordering that actually occurred. > In fact I made that mistake so I quit and restarted top. The incorrect swap total number persisted. After a fashion the number makes some sense: The small swap partitions are 2 GB, if the swap is used uniformly the total would be 8 GB. 7192 MB is less wrong than the ~13GB reported by swapinfo.
> > You might want to report the types/models of the USB flash devices that > were in used. Also relevant is the past usage pattern and amount of > prior use on the USB flash devices. > > The flash devices are the same Sandisk Extreme "thumb drives" used in earlier swap experiments with buildworld. One is model SDCZ80-064, the other SDCZ800-064. The former is rated USB3.0, the latter USB3.1. They're certainly not new, but neither are they obviously broken (yet). Thanks for reading! bob prohaska _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
