Re: Is it only me or is the ZFS memory usage for desktop computers uncomfortable?

[Ellie <el%horse64.org@localhost>]

On 11/4/26 12:17, Greg Troxel wrote:
> More or less, the ZFS philosophy is that it's better to use RAM for
> caching than not to use it.   When ZFS ARC and memory management works
> the way it is designed -- and I think in 11 it does -- then when there
> is memory pressure the cache shrinks.

This doesn't seem to be working with NetBSD 11:

https://horse64.org/temp/memtest.png

See how one memtest takes 10G, and the one launched after in the bottom 
left terminal merely gets scraps. It's not possible to allocate much 
more after that, some programs quit soon after due to alloc fails.

Even if it did work, this can prevent large programs from launching so I 
think for a desktop it's not a good default. Or would it not do that? 
Sorry if I'm misunderstanding how this should work.

Regards,

Ellie