From owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Mon Jun 18 12:59:39 2018 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8825A1005A67 for ; Mon, 18 Jun 2018 12:59:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tech-lists@zyxst.net) Received: from out2-smtp.messagingengine.com (out2-smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.26]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 25F157D920 for ; Mon, 18 Jun 2018 12:59:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tech-lists@zyxst.net) Received: from compute4.internal (compute4.nyi.internal [10.202.2.44]) by mailout.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id 826E621FA6 for ; Mon, 18 Jun 2018 08:59:38 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mailfrontend1 ([10.202.2.162]) by compute4.internal (MEProxy); Mon, 18 Jun 2018 08:59:38 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=zyxst.net; h= content-transfer-encoding:content-type:date:from:in-reply-to :message-id:mime-version:references:subject:to:x-me-sender :x-me-sender:x-sasl-enc; s=fm2; bh=NX5R7mYPtrm3+3dvbOxwfKfPG2Xl/ GEUG4tPkwZYdaA=; b=AZVuo4QaClZ8lw9+P85d5eHLNJDQ4wY+qHH5O3sRZibwa fmZ6NBRz4GVmyi+nfNhDzRXYCRYw+poguU+gEf7nQ9JT36Dl7t6hCdwD1PefiXT2 2KCZbihDyuXobAOotK6mTHIriMuFWtOQb3oDXoHHkUM6pIsMT/RqvR2484rx/2ZR ws2dbgbx2ov7cImmT4/av59uKUziFSFXOO3836b/sbepzunVTYmNJ/UvjuxqOBTI E3p0gTJqYjqK0+1au3m4kcTzVWdTHwIa7pzuYT9q38x2/xdTISZZoUk9S9fCnLMB 7WAi4c3eLcsZ/OTkbajrEzL2+qCx2VraUMpinw0xw== DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d= messagingengine.com; h=content-transfer-encoding:content-type :date:from:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version:references :subject:to:x-me-sender:x-me-sender:x-sasl-enc; s=fm3; bh=NX5R7m YPtrm3+3dvbOxwfKfPG2Xl/GEUG4tPkwZYdaA=; b=Xw/ezxrT6BLiThgDCqqEbO O1HgMI60Od8S2r+xYpAGgA2j7vrOyF/1iKKsuRAkY/ulnoMN/mBpF+26HChl2XMg 3Ixdeg4W+7jZxoCY91Vx5xXESQfabgMvUiMMQRb1qXVyT5hRLk89daAXG0lH1apu KY83fpgjg25NyGXtv7eYTpaL3v/yJ6NYhE7XzWnIA2hhKtK7nicu8Rs6wfeJgE7G +hhijnjoacQ5gcj8PYf4IPEDMwrTuSXwhcivOlxHiXQVHmwVQHWNjoHtqjtisAvF +eXPEX/Ymm/42Bv7l1h+C3WDJanVsNCMm3oilENGGcDDTsjvtXqMmV1Up4EREaSg == X-ME-Proxy: X-ME-Sender: Received: from desktop.local (parsley.growveg.org [82.70.91.97]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 23221E4329 for ; Mon, 18 Jun 2018 08:59:38 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: lightly loaded system eats swap space To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org References: <1529324601.427299.1411679552.7868D498@webmail.messagingengine.com> From: tech-lists Organization: none Message-ID: Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2018 13:59:37 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1529324601.427299.1411679552.7868D498@webmail.messagingengine.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.26 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2018 12:59:39 -0000 On 18/06/2018 13:23, David Fullard wrote: > I've noticed you've got a rather large ZFS ARC. You could try > limiting the ZFS max ARC size by setting the vfs.zfs.arc_max sysctl. I'll try this as soon as I can. thanks, -- J.