plenty of memory, but system us intensively swapping

Eugene M. Zheganin eugene at zhegan.in
Tue Nov 20 10:22:11 UTC 2018


Hello,

On 20.11.2018 15:12, Trond Endrestøl wrote:
> On freebsd-hackers the other day,
> https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2018-November/053575.html,
> it was suggested to set vm.pageout_update_period=0. This sysctl is at
> 600 initially.
>
> ZFS' ARC needs to be capped, otherwise it will eat most, if not all,
> of your memory.
Well, as you can see, ARC ate only half, and the other half is eaten by 
the kernel. So far I suppose that if I will cap the ARC, the kernel will 
simply eat the rest.

Eugene.


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