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Subject: Re: virtualbox: out of memory on start [Was: DRI initialiazation
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Andriy Gapon <avg@freebsd.org> writes:

> This machine has 4GB of RAM and only a handful of applications are started (but
> in KDE4). But memory usage line from top looks suspicious:
> Mem: 1439M Active, 199M Inact, 1308M Wired, 669M Cache, 392M Buf, 61M Free
> Wired is huge, Buf and Cache are also substantial.
> Maybe something to do with ZFS?

ZFS allocates its cache out of kernel memory space, so yeah, all the ZFS
cache will show up under "Wired" and there's usually a lot of it.