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Date:      Thu, 28 Aug 2014 17:30:17 -0500
From:      Alan Cox <alc@rice.edu>
To:        "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@over-yonder.net>, Steven Hartland <smh@freebsd.org>
Cc:        svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, Dmitry Morozovsky <marck@rinet.ru>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r270759 - in head/sys: cddl/compat/opensolaris/kern cddl/compat/opensolaris/sys cddl/contrib/opensolaris/uts/common/fs/zfs vm
Message-ID:  <53FFAD79.7070106@rice.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20140828211508.GK46031@over-yonder.net>
References:  <201408281950.s7SJo90I047213@svn.freebsd.org> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1408290055050.67367@woozle.rinet.ru> <899BF203A6C64F3D8C8902F371D9DA79@multiplay.co.uk> <20140828211508.GK46031@over-yonder.net>

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On 08/28/2014 16:15, Matthew D. Fuller wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 10:11:39PM +0100 I heard the voice of
> Steven Hartland, and lo! it spake thus:
>> Its very likely applicable to stable/9 although I've never used 9
>> myself, we jumped from 9 direct to 10.
> This is actually hitting two different issues from the two bugs:
>
> - 191510 is about "ARC isn't greedy enough" on huge-memory machines,
>   and from the osreldate that bug was filed on 9.2, so presumably is
>   applicable.
>
> - 187594 is about "ARC is too greedy" (probably mostly on not-so-huge
>   machines) and starves/drives the rest of the system into swap.  That
>   I believe came about as a result of some unrelated change in the
>   10.x stream that upset the previous balance between ARC and the rest
>   of the VM, so isn't a problem on 9.x.

10.0 had a bug in the page daemon that was fixed in 10-STABLE about
three months ago (r265945).  The ARC was not the only thing affected by
this bug.




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