Where is my memory on 'fresh' 11-STABLE? It should be used by ARC, but it is not used for it anymore.

Lev Serebryakov lev at FreeBSD.org
Wed Nov 21 14:53:15 UTC 2018


Hello Eugene,

Wednesday, November 21, 2018, 5:19:32 PM, you wrote:

>>  It is more likely that there is a bug in "priority" for memory
>> distribution: abd FREE memory has higher priority than ARC somehow.
> OTOH, if "abd_chunks" part of ZFS ARC is not released to the UMA
> from which it was allocated (to be reused by other parts of the kernel)
> but is reused by ZFS itself, then top(1) should report it as part of ZFS ARC
> and not as other "Wired" memory.
 It will be better to system use this memory for ARC and not as "Free" chunks for
future usage :-)


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 Lev                            mailto:lev at FreeBSD.org



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