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Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2015 07:58:45 -0500
From: Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org>
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Subject: Re: NFS Mount and LARGE amounts of "INACT" memory
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On 2015-06-17 07:26, Larry Rosenman wrote:
> I have a 64G memory FreeBSD 11-CURRENT system that has a couple of
> mounts to a FreeNAS (FreeBSD 9.3) system.
> 
> When my rsync from a different system to one of the NFS mounts runs, I
> get like 48G of Inactive memory that goes back to
> free if I umount the share.
> 
> I'm wondering why this memory moves from ZFS ARC to INACT.
> 
> And, is this expected?
I've posted screenshots at:

http://www.lerctr.org/~ler/FreeBSD_inact/


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