Perhaps it's just me, but upon upgrading to 7.3, I noticed that when VMs
shut down, there appears to be a flurry of disk activity right after the
VM OS shuts down, which seems like page flushing of mapped and/or cached
pages.  I seem to also not recall as high a value for cached memory usage 
in 7.2, but perhaps I just never really looked before.

Some details:

11th gen intel cpu
pci-e ssd, nothing special
softdep enabled on drive with disk images
qcow2 images
mix of linux/openbsd (6.x kernels, 7.2/7.3 obsd)
disk images exceed system memory
vm memory is < 50% of system memory
happens with a single vm 
some vm instances do have swap configured but doesn't seem to get used

I'd be curious if anyone else had noticed something similar, or if there
were some obvious tuning settings I didn't see in a quick peek at the 
FAQ.  Eg does the vmm/vmd subsystem prefer specific mount options.

Thanks.

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