axe vm.max_wired

[Dag-Erling Smørgrav]

Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel at gmail.com> writes:
> Andriy Gapon <avg at FreeBSD.org> writes:
> > I would like to propose to axe vm.max_wired limit.
> The limit is useful to prevent the system from entering live-lock.
> ZFS-using machines should be tuned.

ZFS shouldn't be allowed to wire arbitrary amounts of memory.  It is
nearly impossible to handle passwords and encryption keys securely on
ZFS systems, because there is no wired memory left for applications.

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