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Date:      Tue, 15 Jan 2019 18:26:36 +0100
From:      Luciano Mannucci <luciano@vespaperitivo.it>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ZFS devouring RAM in less than 2 days on FBSD 11.2
Message-ID:  <43fHM11f4dz1ftYp@baobab.bilink.it>
In-Reply-To: <84a3d2e071d6651e7e15afccdf29b9e0970fb056.camel@inhio.net>
References:  <84a3d2e071d6651e7e15afccdf29b9e0970fb056.camel@inhio.net>

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On Tue, 15 Jan 2019 17:38:36 +0100
ASV <asv@inhio.net> wrote:

> my old server has 16GB of RAM and after less than 2 days 14GB are
> already wired. It seems to me that ZFS ignores completely the 'arc_max'
> parameter.
> 
> Anybody is experiencing the same?
No. After lowering the zfs.arc everything appears fine. Here are my
parameters:

vfs.zfs.arc_min: 536870912
vfs.zfs.arc_max: 1073741824

root@hermes:~ # uptime
 6:22PM  up 6 days,  3:51, 2 users, load averages: 0.10, 0.12, 0.11
root@hermes:~ # top
Mem: 108M Active, 9934M Inact, 7570M Wired, 1565M Buf, 14G Free
ARC: 2214M Total, 838M MFU, 1099M MRU, 32K Anon, 6073K Header, 272M Other
     873M Compressed, 1064M Uncompressed, 1.22:1 Ratio
Swap: 8192M Total, 8192M Free

My version is still 11.2-RELEASE-p7. I don't think it makes a big
difference...

Luciano.
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