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Date:      Mon, 27 Apr 2026 13:25:10 +0300
From:      Christos Chatzaras <chris@cretaforce.gr>
To:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 14.4 High CPU ARC issue
Message-ID:  <173F9AF4-E708-4D18-8A8F-F7D571C707E9@cretaforce.gr>
In-Reply-To: <5e2170f3-a789-48c8-8bd8-4dfbd842602c@ifdnrg.com>

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> On 27 Apr 2026, at 12:18, Paul Macdonald <paul@ifdnrg.com> wrote:
> 
> Posting in case it helps someone.
> 
> We had a a couple of boxes displaying unusally high cpu ( specifically system loads)
> 
> After spotting the link below, we resolved by increasing the ARC max
> 
> https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/high-cpu-and-severe-slowdown-on-freebsd-14-4-openzfs-2-2-9-with-lower-vfs-zfs-arc-max.102233/

I am the one who created that FreeBSD forum thread. I also opened a bug report with OpenZFS here:

https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/issues/18397

In my case, to fix the issue I disabled setting a custom value for vfs.zfs.arc.max

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