Re: misc/60958 ((Probaby) avoidable stability problems due to default memory management behavior on systems with a lot of RAM, ZFS, and no swap)

["Ellie via gnats" <gnats-admin%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR misc/60958; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Ellie <el%horse64.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost, misc-bug-people%netbsd.org@localhost,
 gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost, netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Cc: riastradh%netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: Re: misc/60958 ((Probaby) avoidable stability problems due to default
 memory management behavior on systems with a lot of RAM, ZFS, and no swap)
Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2026 20:01:40 +0000

 On 11/3/26 19:45, Ellie via gnats wrote:
 > Subject: Re: misc/60958 ((Probaby) avoidable stability problems due to default
 >   memory management behavior on systems with a lot of RAM, ZFS, and no swap)
 > Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2026 19:42:47 +0000
 >   
 >   On 11/3/26 17:49, riastradh%NetBSD.org@localhost wrote:
 >   > Synopsis: (Probaby) avoidable stability problems due to default memory management behavior on systems with a lot of RAM, ZFS, and no swap
 >   >
 >   > State-Changed-From-To: open->feedback
 >   > State-Changed-By: riastradh%NetBSD.org@localhost
 >   > State-Changed-When: Tue, 03 Nov 2026 17:49:14 +0000
 >   > State-Changed-Why:
 
 >   Another such jump happened from zero free memory back to around 4GB. At
 >   the same time, "Swap / Pools" went down - I didn't check if by the exact
 >   same amount, but from around 12G to less than 1G at the end.
 
 Oops, a correction: I may have mixed that up, see photo! It did go down 
 but not as much.
 
 Also, my photo link was wrong: https://horse64.org/temp/100_7111.JPG
 
 Regards,
 
 Ellie