kern/187594: [zfs] [patch] ZFS ARC behavior problem and fix

[Karl Denninger]

The following reply was made to PR kern/187594; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Karl Denninger <karl at denninger.net>
To: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org, karl at fs.denninger.net
Cc:  
Subject: Re: kern/187594: [zfs] [patch] ZFS ARC behavior problem and fix
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2014 10:40:49 -0500

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 Follow-up:
 
 21 days at this point of uninterrupted uptime, inact pages are stable as =
 
 is the free list, wired and free are appropriate and varies with load as =
 
 expected, ZERO swapping and performance is and has remained excellent,=20
 all on a very-heavily used fairly-beefy (~24GB RAM, dual Xeon CPUs)=20
 production system under 10-STABLE.
 
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 -- Karl
 karl at denninger.net
 
 
 
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