XU4 swapfile

[johnvick]

Hi Fourdee,

A few times recently I get the 100% use swapfile warning message on the Cloudshell screen. I have 100 MB allocated. This persists until I reboot.

Is this anything to be concerned about? I assume so or else it wouldn't give a warning message?

Sometimes but maybe not every time this has happened has been when copying large files into ownCloud.

John

[Fourdee]

Hi Fourdee,

A few times recently I get the 100% use swapfile warning message on the Cloudshell screen. I have 100 MB allocated. This persists until I reboot.

Is this anything to be concerned about? I assume so or else it wouldn't give a warning message?

Sometimes but maybe not every time this has happened has been when copying large files into ownCloud.

John

Hi John,

The temp upload directory is

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/var/tmp/php_upload_tmp

(disk). As for why its possibly using up memory, not sure.

Can you please give results for:

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df -h
cat /etc/sysctl.conf | grep swap
cat /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini | grep upload_tmp_dir
cat /etc/php5/cli/php.ini | grep upload_tmp_dir
cat /etc/php5/fpm/php.ini | grep upload_tmp_dir
cat /etc/php5/cgi/php.ini | grep upload_tmp_dir

In the mean time, try increasing the swapfile size:

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dietpi-config
#advanced options
#swapfile size
#try 1000

[johnvick]

Hi Fourdee,

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root@Odroid:~# df -h
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1       110G   27G   78G  26% /
udev             10M     0   10M   0% /dev
tmpfs           399M  6.9M  392M   2% /run
tmpfs           996M     0  996M   0% /dev/shm
tmpfs           5.0M  4.0K  5.0M   1% /run/lock
tmpfs           996M     0  996M   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
tmpfs            10M  1.3M  8.8M  13% /DietPi
tmpfs           996M   16K  996M   1% /tmp
/dev/mmcblk0p1   71M   25M   47M  35% /boot
/dev/sdb1        15G  4.9G  9.1G  35% /mnt/usb_1
tmpfs           200M     0  200M   0% /run/user/0

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root@Odroid:~# cat /etc/sysctl.conf | grep swap
vm.swappiness=1

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root@Odroid:~# cat /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini | grep upload_tmp_dir
cat: /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini: No such file or directory

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root@Odroid:~# cat /etc/php5/cli/php.ini | grep upload_tmp_dir
upload_tmp_dir = /var/tmp/php_upload_tmp

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root@Odroid:~# cat /etc/php5/fpm/php.ini | grep upload_tmp_dir
upload_tmp_dir = /var/tmp/php_upload_tmp

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root@Odroid:~# cat /etc/php5/cgi/php.ini | grep upload_tmp_dir
;upload_tmp_dir =

I've installed php7 if that may be relevant?

John

[k-plan]

I've installed php7 if that may be relevant?

Edit /etc/apt/sources.list and when apt-get install php7.* ?

Hmm, sorry, bad idea ....

As far as I know, php7.0 is still in beta and where is no application who need it coercively.

All dietpi-software, who need php, is optimise for php5 so far.

[johnvick]

Yes it is a bit cutting edge but I'd done it earlier on BPi and was so impressed with the performance boost I tried it on the XU4 and found the same. Do you think this could be behind the swapfile problem?

[Fourdee]

PHP7 Do you think this could be behind the swapfile problem?

Possibly.

If i remember correctly, PHP uses the /tmp folder for uploads by default. As this is mounted to RAM in DietPi, may be the cause of out of memory.

We change the upload directory for PHP5, to a disk location during installation:

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cat /etc/php5/cli/php.ini | grep upload_tmp_dir
upload_tmp_dir = /var/tmp/php_upload_tmp

. Maybe PHP7 has a new or different option? Could even be a new config file location (eg: /etc/php7/cli/php.ini) , although, i'am not sure myself, haven't tried PHP7 yet.

[johnvick]

Hi Fourdee,

php7.0 uses the system default location for tmp files - I've changed the temp upload directory to the one you suggest - so will see if the the swapfile problem goes away.

John

[Fourdee]

Hi Fourdee,

php7.0 uses the system default location for tmp files - I've changed the temp upload directory to the one you suggest - so will see if the the swapfile problem goes away.

John

Hi John,

Excellent. Fingers crossed

[johnvick]

All good now swapfile use has at most been 3%.

Thanks again for your help.

John

[Fourdee]

All good now swapfile use has at most been 3%.

Thanks again for your help.

John

Hi John,

Excellent, good to hear all is well. Thanks for letting me know

I'll be taking a look at PHP7 when I start work on Debian Stretch, but wont be for a while, at least until we get more requests for it: https://github.com/Fourdee/DietPi/issues/475

Basically Stretch is the next Debian release, newer software versions (eg: PHP7) but its still in "testing", so could be buggy: https://wiki.debian.org/DebianStretch