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Date:      Fri, 17 Feb 2017 16:21:53 +0000
From:      Arthur Chance <freebsd@qeng-ho.org>
To:        Scott Bennett <bennett@sdf.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: pf can't get memory for tables
Message-ID:  <1cd15985-dcf5-673f-9517-63575c8fbf1e@qeng-ho.org>
In-Reply-To: <201702170919.v1H9J45t015787@sdf.org>
References:  <201702170919.v1H9J45t015787@sdf.org>

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On 17/02/2017 09:19, Scott Bennett wrote:
[much snippage]

> After
> puzzling over this turn of events on my screen for several seconds...aha!
> The machine has only 4 GB of RAM, so a long while back I added
> 
> vm.kmem_size_max=805306368
> 
> to /boot/loader.conf in order to limit the tendency at the time for ZFS to
> take over everything with a growing ARC.  Unfortunately, vm.kmem_size_max
> is one of those tunables that can only be set at boot time, so I can't easily
> experiment with increasing the value. 

If you want to control the ARC size, surely setting vfs.zfs.arc_max in
/boot/loader.conf is more specific than vm.kmem_size_max? Unfortunately
that's a boot time tunable as well.

-- 
By June 1949, people had begun to realize that it was not so easy to
get a program right as had at one time appeared. It was on one of my
journeys between the EDSAC room and the punching equipment that the
realization came over me with full force that a good part of the
remainder of my life was going to be spent in finding errors in my own
programs.

	-- Maurice Wilkes



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