Bug 162455

Summary:	FreeBSD 9x unstable with file-based swap
Product:	Base System	Reporter:	subbsd
Component:	misc	Assignee:	Mark Linimon <linimon>
Status:	Closed Overcome By Events
Severity:	Affects Only Me
Priority:	Normal
Version:	Unspecified
Hardware:	Any
OS:	Any

Description subbsd 2011-11-11 00:10:11 UTC

Some information is described here http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-fs/2011-October/012878.html. 
However two of my hosts with swapfile="/usr/swap0" in /etc/rc.conf, where /usr/swap0 is created by dd (official handbook way), perfectly hang without swapoff, through N time of the beginning of use swap

Fix: 

Sorry
How-To-Repeat: 1) dd if=/dev/zero of=/usr/swap0 bs=1024k count=512
2) swapfile="/usr/swap0"  to /etc/rc.conf
3) service addswap start

start to use a swap, or play with swapoff/on command like this:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-fs/2011-October/012878.html

Comment 1 Eitan Adler freebsd_committer

2017-12-31 07:59:49 UTC

For bugs matching the following criteria:

Status: In Progress Changed: (is less than) 2014-06-01

Reset to default assignee and clear in-progress tags.

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Comment 2 Mark Linimon freebsd_committer

2021-06-30 00:40:25 UTC

^Triage: close as OBE.

I'm sorry that this PR did not get addressed in a timely fashion.