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Mimamau
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 Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2018 2:22 pm Post subject: Disk I/O freezes system |
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When building larger packets, my system freezes with a solid hard disk LED.
I tried using less threads, disabling swap, switching cfq / deadline io scheduler.
My system is a Core i7 2,8Ghz with 4GB RAM. How can I prevent this? |
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Zucca
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I guess you have set --jobs=1. And jobs for emake (-j<number>) in MAKEOPTS too?
-pipe in CFLAGS reduces disk activity if you have enough ram, otherwise it starts poking your swap.
With 4GB I don't recommend to place portage temp on tmpfs. Check that too.
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Mimamau
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I have MAKEOPTS="-j5" and PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp".
Never had problems with -pipe, will try it without. |
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Zucca
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What's the filesystem on your /var/tmp? Check that there's anough space. Some filesystems tend to perform poorly if over 85-90% is being used.
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mike155
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| Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2018 7:42 pm Post subject: |
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| Do you have a SSD? Did you forget to use fstrim? |
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Mimamau
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No SSD, /var/tmp is on the root partition with enough free space, it's a fresh installation.
To rule out a broken disk, I moved the hole system to another disk with the same results.
I have a terminal window with top open, as soon as kswapd(0) becomes visible (5.8% CPU), the system freezes or becomes completely unresponsive.
Top says, swap is not used at all. |
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Zucca
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| Mimamau wrote: | | as soon as kswapd(0) becomes visible (5.8% CPU), the system freezes or becomes completely unresponsive. |
That's very strange. Only thing, I know, uses kswapd, other than swap itself, is zswap but that does not cause disk i/o.
Make absolutely sure you don't have any swap enabled by:
Everything seems to suggest that you have ran out or memory... and kernel is constantly moving memory pages in and out of swap space.
Does this happen right after you ran out of memory?
Does dmesg show anything strange when this happens? dmesg -w on terminal then start running something that causes this problem.
Do you use systemd btw?
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Mimamau
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Nothing in dmesg. Yes, it happens right when its out of memory.
I do not use systemd.
I found something. I booted from the livecd and chrooted into my system and it did not happen.
This time the system actually used the swap. It became slower but not unresponsive.
Now I noticed, the livecd set swappiness to 60, while my system defaults to 0.
So I set it to 60 and compile on...  |
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