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Date:      Tue, 20 Nov 2018 15:22:07 +0500
From:      "Eugene M. Zheganin" <eugene@zhegan.in>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: plenty of memory, but system us intensively swapping
Message-ID:  <192ecadf-4e66-297c-576f-f09e41ad7e29@zhegan.in>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.1811201108060.90197@mail.fig.ol.no>
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Hello,

On 20.11.2018 15:12, Trond Endrestøl wrote:
> On freebsd-hackers the other day,
> https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2018-November/053575.html,
> it was suggested to set vm.pageout_update_period=0. This sysctl is at
> 600 initially.
>
> ZFS' ARC needs to be capped, otherwise it will eat most, if not all,
> of your memory.
Well, as you can see, ARC ate only half, and the other half is eaten by 
the kernel. So far I suppose that if I will cap the ARC, the kernel will 
simply eat the rest.

Eugene.



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