ZFS ARC (was: FreeBSD 13.2-p1 hanging)

In reply to: Tom Everett : "Re: FreeBSD 13.2-p1 hanging"
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From: Graham Perrin <grahamperrin_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2023 07:38:18 UTC

On 30/07/2023 00:55, Tom Everett wrote:
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<https://old.reddit.com/comments/15bfyne/-/jtqxjlr/#thing_t1_jtqxjlr> 
lists lesser-known alternatives that may be more appropriate, where 
tuning is required.

Without attempting to tune anything: 
<https://new.reddit.com/comments/15bfyne/comment/jtr09do/#t1_jtr09do> 
includes an htop view of a virtual machine that I slashed down, to 512 
MB memory, before loading the entire FreeBSD Handbook into Firefox. I 
paged through from bottom to top, then opened Dolphin. FreeBSD 
13.2-RELEASE-p1. SDDM, Firefox, Dolphin and other packages from latest.