On 11/30/2017 18:15, Dustin Wenz wrote:
> I'm using chyves on FreeBSD 11.1 RELEASE to manage a few VMs (guest OS is 
> also FreeBSD 11.1). Their sole purpose is to house some medium-sized Postgres 
> databases (100-200GB). The host system has 64GB of real memory and 112GB of 
> swap. I have configured each guest to only use 16GB of memory, yet while 
> doing my initial database imports in the VMs, bhyve will quickly grow to use 
> all available system memory and then be killed by the kernel:
> 
>       kernel: swap_pager: I/O error - pageout failed; blkno 1735,size 4096, 
> error 12
>       kernel: swap_pager: I/O error - pageout failed; blkno 1610,size 4096, 
> error 12
>       kernel: swap_pager: I/O error - pageout failed; blkno 1763,size 4096, 
> error 12
>       kernel: pid 41123 (bhyve), uid 0, was killed: out of swap space
> 
> The OOM condition seems related to doing moderate IO within the VM, though 
> nothing within the VM itself shows high memory usage. This is the chyves 
> config for one of them:
> 
>       bargs                      -A -H -P -S
>       bhyve_disk_type            virtio-blk
>       bhyve_net_type             virtio-net
>       bhyveload_flags
>       chyves_guest_version       0300
>       cpu                        4
>       creation                   Created on Mon Oct 23 16:17:04 CDT 2017 by 
> chyves v0.2.0 2016/09/11 using __create()
>       loader                     bhyveload
>       net_ifaces                 tap51
>       os                         default
>       ram                        16G
>       rcboot                     0
>       revert_to_snapshot
>       revert_to_snapshot_method  off
>       serial                     nmdm51
>       template                   no
>       uuid                       8495a130-b837-11e7-b092-0025909a8b56
> 
> 
> I've also tried using different bhyve_disk_types, with no improvement. How is 
> it that bhyve can use far more memory that I'm specifying?
> 
>       - .Dustin
> 

Can you show 'top' output. What makes you think bhyve is using the
memory? Are you using ZFS? Have you limited the vfs.zfs.arc_max to leave
some free RAM for the bhyve instances?

-- 
Allan Jude
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