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Subject: ZFS memory exhaustion?
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I have a couple questions:

- what does it look like when zfs needs more physical memory / is running
out of memory for its operations?

- what diagnostic numbers (vmstat, etc.) should I watch for that?

swapinfo shows zero (basically zero) swap usage, so it doesn't look like
things get that bad.

Thanks