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Date:      Tue, 12 Feb 2019 14:41:13 -0500
From:      Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>
To:        Eugene Grosbein <eugen@grosbein.net>
Cc:        FreeBSD stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: 11.2-STABLE kernel wired memory leak
Message-ID:  <d450a2d3-97e0-b70a-2199-73eb480945b5@sentex.net>
In-Reply-To: <bfbcaaba-0da3-ac6f-9543-1b717acd8a89@grosbein.net>
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On 2/12/2019 2:38 PM, Eugene Grosbein wrote:
>
> mbuf* numbers represent memory being wasted IMHO.
>
> In contrast to ZFS memory that can contain useful cached data,
> contents of freed mbufs cannot be re-used, right?
>
> Some amount of "free" mbufs in the zone's just fine to serve bursts of traffic
> without need to grow the zone but your numbers are way too big IMHO.
>
> Do you have memory pressure here? Growth of swap usage?
>
I had to radically cut ARC down, otherwise the box would start swapping
all sorts of processes out


% sysctl -a vfs.zfs.arc_max
vfs.zfs.arc_max: 12307744768


    ---Mike



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