On Tue, Nov 11, 2025 at 10:24:47AM -0800, Mark Millard wrote: > > However, if I remember right, you have reported testing with > the swap adjusted to not produce the warning --and still got > the status of losing control and getting no more output to > look at. If so, the above is not directly a solution to the > specific problem. (It still may be a good idea to not be > oddly configured while trying to find a solution to your > active problem.) >
You do remember right. I have one Pi2 with a USB hard disk which does not warn of excess swap, reports 1.7GB of swap and from time to time hangs irrecoverably (no debugger access) at least a couple of times during buildworld cycles. It's a very slight outlier in having a USB2 to PATA bridge instead of USB-SATA on other hosts. Your point about avoiding misconfiguration is well taken in light of the fragmentation issue. Thanks for writing! bob prohaska
