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

From: Garrett Wollman <wollman_at_bimajority.org>
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2025 15:58:27 UTC
<<On Fri, 12 Sep 2025 08:50:10 -0700, Rick Macklem <rick.macklem@gmail.com> said:

> Ok, but don't we want something that prevents the arc from taking all
> the memory? (It seems like 932Gbytes should be close to a hard
> upper bound for a system with 1Tbyte of ram?)

Presently it says:

kstat.zfs.misc.arcstats.c_max: 1098065367040

That's 1 TiB less 1379 MiB.  Which in all honesty *ought to be enough*
for munin-node, nrpe, ntpd, sendmail, inetd, lldpd, nslcd, sshd, syslogd,
mountd, and nfsuserd.

-GAWollman