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Subject: How much memory does ZFS use?
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Someone told me that ZFS is a memory hog and it should be avoided as such.
Is this true?
How can I understand how much memory particular kernel module consumes?
In Solaris there is mdb for that, what is an equivalent in FreeBSD?

Yuri