Fail to install base packages. Memory exhausting.

[ant5]

Recently I tried to install FreeBSD on baremetal. I've got recent 14.3 LiveUSB stick with own basepackages (builded from 14-STABLE via make packages). On bare-metal server I booted from LiveUSB then go to live system. Then I prepared server's disk, mount it

and run something like pkg -r /mnt -o IGNORE_OSVERSION=yes add /media/basepkgs/FreeBSD:14:amd64/14.snap20250717082520/FreeBSD-at-14.snap20250717082520.pkg

Then I have long time of running strings:

Examining this process shows that pkg eat all memory and after all memory exhausted killed by system.

I was doing such a things on virtual machine with pkg 1.21 and that was fine.

[ant5]

pkg version 2.0.5 is unaffected.

[bapt]

why are you using pkg add instead of pkg install ?

[ant5]

Because I use packages stored in a local media.

[grahamperrin]

• https://github.com/freebsd/pkg/issues/2478#issue-3242339655

LiveUSB stick

Try:

sysctl vm.pageout_oom_seq=120

[markmi]

. . .

Try:

sysctl vm.pageout_oom_seq=120

An earlier screen shot shows evidence of an unbound recursion. vm.pageout_oom_seq will do no good in such cases.

[markmi]

Because I use packages stored in a local media.

Normal repositories can be on local media and handled in normal upgrade and install ways. For example I use:

# cat /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/main-ZNV4-default.conf
main-ZNV4-default: {
        url: "file:///usr/local/poudriere/data/packages/main-ZNV4-default",
        enabled: yes,
}

I use commands like:

# pkg upgrade -rmain-ZNV4-default
# pkg install -rmain-ZNV4-default     `cat ~/origins/amd64-pkgs.txt`

[ant5]

My command was:

pkg -r /mnt -o IGNORE_OSVERSION=yes add /media/basepkgs/FreeBSD:14:amd64/14.snap20250717082520/FreeBSD-at-14.snap20250717082520.pkg

It failed same way with any base package I try. So no "FreeBSD-at" specific. Pkg 2.05 do things well invoked by the same command.