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Subject: Re: Limiting ZFS ARC Size?
To: Bob Willcox <bob@immure.com>,
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On 18/06/2018 17:24, Bob Willcox wrote:
> to the point where my running processes (such as firefox) start page
> thrashing.

I thought ARC was supposed to give up memory if there is memory pressure 
that causes applications to page?