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Re: zfs pool behavior - is it ever freed?



On Thu, Jul 27, 2023 at 06:42:02PM +0100, Mike Pumford wrote:
> 
> Now I might be reading it wrong but that suggest to me that it would be an
> awful idea to run ZFS on a system that needs memory for things other than
> filesystem caching as there is no way for those memory needs to force ZFS to
> give up its pool usage.

At least not in the current incarnation. There are lots of tunables
though that are supposed to limit ZFS memory usage, but so far we do
not expose these (FreeBSD does).


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