Re: how to recycle Inact memory more aggressively?

2016-03-15 Thread Adrian Chadd
[snip] It's not rsync itself. It's just triggering some odd behaviour. I've poked alc; I'll work with him to see if this can be figured out. Thanks! I'm glad I'm not the only person who has seen this behaviour! -adrian ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org

Re: how to recycle Inact memory more aggressively?

2016-03-15 Thread Jeffrey Bouquet
On Tue, 15 Mar 2016 09:30:11 -0600, Ian Lepore wrote: > On Tue, 2016-03-15 at 07:20 -0700, Jeffrey Bouquet wrote: > > rsync... see bottom posting > > > > On Tue, 15 Mar 2016 07:43:46 +0100, olli hauer wrote: > > > > > On 2016-03-14 15:19, Ian Lepore wrote: > > > > On Sun, 2016-03-13 at 19:08

Re: how to recycle Inact memory more aggressively?

2016-03-15 Thread olli hauer
... >> Just a point I've bought up elsewhere... >> I've, if I recall, wrecked several filesystems (although EIDE) using >> rsync at the normal bus rate, and sometimes >> thumbdrives with whatever filesystem type on them. >> >> I settled on --bwlimit=1500, max for unattended rsync usage and >> al

Re: how to recycle Inact memory more aggressively?

2016-03-15 Thread Gary Jennejohn
On Sun, 13 Mar 2016 18:33:20 -0700 Mark Johnston wrote: > On Sat, Mar 12, 2016 at 09:38:35AM +0100, Gary Jennejohn wrote: > > In the course of the last year or so the behavior of the vm system > > has changed in regard to how aggressively Inact memory is recycled. > > > > My box has 8GB of memor

Re: how to recycle Inact memory more aggressively?

2016-03-15 Thread Ian Lepore
On Tue, 2016-03-15 at 07:20 -0700, Jeffrey Bouquet wrote: > rsync... see bottom posting > > On Tue, 15 Mar 2016 07:43:46 +0100, olli hauer wrote: > > > On 2016-03-14 15:19, Ian Lepore wrote: > > > On Sun, 2016-03-13 at 19:08 -0700, Adrian Chadd wrote: > > > > On 13 March 2016 at 18:51, Mark John

Re: how to recycle Inact memory more aggressively?

2016-03-15 Thread Jeffrey Bouquet
rsync... see bottom posting On Tue, 15 Mar 2016 07:43:46 +0100, olli hauer wrote: > On 2016-03-14 15:19, Ian Lepore wrote: > > On Sun, 2016-03-13 at 19:08 -0700, Adrian Chadd wrote: > >> On 13 March 2016 at 18:51, Mark Johnston wrote: > >>> On Sun, Mar 13, 2016 at 06:33:46PM -0700, Adrian Chadd

Re: how to recycle Inact memory more aggressively?

2016-03-15 Thread Gary Jennejohn
On Sun, 13 Mar 2016 16:41:17 +0100 Fabian Keil wrote: > Gary Jennejohn wrote: > > > In the course of the last year or so the behavior of the vm system > > has changed in regard to how aggressively Inact memory is recycled. > > > > My box has 8GB of memory. At the moment I'm copying 100s of gi

Re: how to recycle Inact memory more aggressively?

2016-03-14 Thread olli hauer
On 2016-03-14 15:19, Ian Lepore wrote: > On Sun, 2016-03-13 at 19:08 -0700, Adrian Chadd wrote: >> On 13 March 2016 at 18:51, Mark Johnston wrote: >>> On Sun, Mar 13, 2016 at 06:33:46PM -0700, Adrian Chadd wrote: Hi, I can reproduce this by doing a mkimage on a large destination >>>

Re: how to recycle Inact memory more aggressively?

2016-03-14 Thread Ian Lepore
On Sun, 2016-03-13 at 19:08 -0700, Adrian Chadd wrote: > On 13 March 2016 at 18:51, Mark Johnston wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 13, 2016 at 06:33:46PM -0700, Adrian Chadd wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I can reproduce this by doing a mkimage on a large destination > > > file > > > image. it looks like it

Re: how to recycle Inact memory more aggressively?

2016-03-13 Thread Adrian Chadd
On 13 March 2016 at 18:51, Mark Johnston wrote: > On Sun, Mar 13, 2016 at 06:33:46PM -0700, Adrian Chadd wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I can reproduce this by doing a mkimage on a large destination file >> image. it looks like it causes all the desktop processes to get paged >> out whilst it's doing so, and

Re: how to recycle Inact memory more aggressively?

2016-03-13 Thread Mark Johnston
On Sun, Mar 13, 2016 at 06:33:46PM -0700, Adrian Chadd wrote: > Hi, > > I can reproduce this by doing a mkimage on a large destination file > image. it looks like it causes all the desktop processes to get paged > out whilst it's doing so, and then the whole UI freezes until it > catches up. mkim

Re: how to recycle Inact memory more aggressively?

2016-03-13 Thread Adrian Chadd
Hi, I can reproduce this by doing a mkimage on a large destination file image. it looks like it causes all the desktop processes to get paged out whilst it's doing so, and then the whole UI freezes until it catches up. I'll poke alc and others to see if I can figure out how to trace what's going

Re: how to recycle Inact memory more aggressively?

2016-03-13 Thread Mark Johnston
On Sat, Mar 12, 2016 at 09:38:35AM +0100, Gary Jennejohn wrote: > In the course of the last year or so the behavior of the vm system > has changed in regard to how aggressively Inact memory is recycled. > > My box has 8GB of memory. At the moment I'm copying 100s of gigabytes > from one file syst

Re: how to recycle Inact memory more aggressively?

2016-03-13 Thread Fabian Keil
Gary Jennejohn wrote: > In the course of the last year or so the behavior of the vm system > has changed in regard to how aggressively Inact memory is recycled. > > My box has 8GB of memory. At the moment I'm copying 100s of gigabytes > from one file system to another one. > > Looking at top I

Re: how to recycle Inact memory more aggressively?

2016-03-13 Thread Adrian Chadd
Yeah, but his comment is that "i'm doing a large file copy operation; why is the system paging out binaries versus recycling other file cache memory?" I have a feeling this is more due to the last few years of VM work to improve file serving performance and it hasn't really been tested/evaluated i

Re: how to recycle Inact memory more aggressively?

2016-03-13 Thread RW
On Sat, 12 Mar 2016 09:38:35 +0100 Gary Jennejohn wrote: > In the course of the last year or so the behavior of the vm system > has changed in regard to how aggressively Inact memory is recycled. > > My box has 8GB of memory. At the moment I'm copying 100s of gigabytes > from one file system to

how to recycle Inact memory more aggressively?

2016-03-12 Thread Gary Jennejohn
In the course of the last year or so the behavior of the vm system has changed in regard to how aggressively Inact memory is recycled. My box has 8GB of memory. At the moment I'm copying 100s of gigabytes from one file system to another one. Looking at top I observe that there are about 6GB of I