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Date:      Sun, 02 Nov 2025 11:48:06 +0100
From:      Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net>
To:        Doug Ambrisko <ambrisko@ambrisko.com>
Cc:        Peter Eriksson <pen@lysator.liu.se>, Rick Macklem <rick.macklem@gmail.com>, FreeBSD CURRENT <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, Garrett Wollman <wollman@bimajority.org>, Alexander Motin <mav@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: RFC: How ZFS handles arc memory use
Message-ID:  <22b478c6bad8212c61ca19a983a8e2e4@Leidinger.net>
In-Reply-To: <aQKB6P3HNKVNQGip@ambrisko.com>
References:  <CAM5tNy5b3=04zC84Q_c60A9qssZTEY2n73okXoFPeT%2BYSK25JQ@mail.gmail.com> <F848B1F3-DE79-49D3-8D1C-1CB1BB2055E3@lysator.liu.se> <aQKB6P3HNKVNQGip@ambrisko.com>

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Am 2025-10-29 22:06, schrieb Doug Ambrisko:
> It seems around the switch to OpenZFS I would have arc clean task 
> running
> 100% on a core.  I use nullfs on my laptop to map my shared ZFS /data
> partiton into a few vnet instances.  Over night or so I would get into
> this issue.  I found that I had a bunch of vnodes being held by other
> layers.  My solution was to reduce kern.maxvnodes and vfs.zfs.arc.max 
> so
> the ARC cache stayed reasonable without killing other applications.
> 
> That is why a while back I added the vnode count to mount -v so that
> I could see the usage of vnodes for each mount point.  I made a script
> to report on things:

Do you see this also with the nullfs mount option "nocache"?

Bye,
Alexander.

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