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

From: Garrett Wollman <wollman_at_bimajority.org>
Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2025 01:35:26 UTC
<<On Fri, 12 Sep 2025 18:29:30 -0700, Rick Macklem <rick.macklem@gmail.com> said:

> Lets see, 50% of memory allocated to mbufs and 99.9%
> of physical memory allowed for the arc.
> - This reminds me of the stats CNN puts up, where the
>   percentages never add up to 100.

The point being that the ARC is supposed to respond to backpressure
long before memory runs out.  And again, we're talking about a system
with 100 GiB of outright FREE physical memory.  There's no possible
way that can be fully allocated in less than 5 minutes -- the NICs
aren't that fast and the servers aren't doing anything else.

-GAWollman