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Date:      Tue, 19 Dec 2017 15:15:38 +0100
From:      Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Peter Jeremy <peter@rulingia.com>
Cc:        src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-stable@freebsd.org, svn-src-stable-11@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r326619 - stable/11/sys/cddl/contrib/opensolaris/uts/common/fs/zfs
Message-ID:  <20171219141538.f7o2ujntckaguhq2@ivaldir.net>
In-Reply-To: <20171213185214.GA12026@server.rulingia.com>
References:  <201712061001.vB6A12Ot032201@repo.freebsd.org> <20171213185214.GA12026@server.rulingia.com>

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On Thu, Dec 14, 2017 at 05:52:15AM +1100, Peter Jeremy wrote:
> On 2017-Dec-06 10:01:02 +0000, Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org> wrot=
e:
> >Author: bapt
> >Date: Wed Dec  6 10:01:02 2017
> >New Revision: 326619
> >URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/326619
> >
> >Log:
> >  MFC r325851:
> > =20
> >  remove the poor emulation of the IllumOS needfree global variable to p=
revent
> >  the ARC reclaim thread running longer than needed.
> > =20
>=20
> This change appears to break the backpressure mechanism that forces
> ARC to release wired memory.  Running FreeBSD/amd64 r326743, I found
> that my system was thrashing badly with almost all memory (~31GB out
> of 32GB) wired (including 19GB ARC, 7GB VBox guests).  Running a tool
> that just allocates and dirties a large amount of memory had no effect
> on the ARC size.  Reverting this change only restores normal behaviour
> where ARC will shrink under pressure.
>=20
> My ZFS boot tunables are:
> vfs.zfs.arc_max=3D"24G"
> vfs.zfs.arc_meta_limit=3D"12G"
>=20

You are running an issue on head? or on stable/11? Given you are reporting =
the
issue on the MFC commit

Best regards,
Bapt

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