On Jun 24, 2020, at 11:34 PM, Donald Wilde <dwilde1 at gmail.com> wrote:> Meant that I upgraded from 12.1-RELEASE to 12-STABLE. When I > configured the -RELEASE install, I manually messed with the MBR disk > partitions. This is nominally a half-TB HDD which showed up as a total > of 446 G available (IIRC, gpart should show it's actual size). I did > auto partitioning, looked at the sizes, and manually set my partitions > to give me 40G of swap instead of the auto-generated size of 4G. > > This is an old Dell i3 laptop. It's really generic, picked > specifically as something I could use for Ubuntu or FreeBSD. Dell > SERVICE TAG is 5K8W162, but it's a generic i3 with 4G of RAM.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.) 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). Cheers, Paul.
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% -- Don Wilde **************************************************** * What is the Internet of Things but a system * * of systems including humans? * ****************************************************