Re: "failed to reclaim memory" with much free physmem

From: Mark Millard <marklmi_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2025 15:23:34 UTC
Garrett Wollman <wollman_at_bimajority.org>
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2025 04:05:34 UTC

. . .

> https://bimajority.org/%7Ewollman/memory-pinpoint%3D1756957462%2C1757648662.png
> 
> shows the memory utilization over the course of the past week
> including the incident on Tuesday morning. I don't know why there's
> 25G of inactive pages for three days leading up to the OOM; perhaps
> that's related? Inactive is normally much less than 1G.

Is the growth to huge wired figures like 932.89G something
new --or has such been historically normal?

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