On 08/28/2014 16:15, Matthew D. Fuller wrote: > On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 10:11:39PM +0100 I heard the voice of > Steven Hartland, and lo! it spake thus: >> Its very likely applicable to stable/9 although I've never used 9 >> myself, we jumped from 9 direct to 10. > This is actually hitting two different issues from the two bugs: > > - 191510 is about "ARC isn't greedy enough" on huge-memory machines, > and from the osreldate that bug was filed on 9.2, so presumably is > applicable. > > - 187594 is about "ARC is too greedy" (probably mostly on not-so-huge > machines) and starves/drives the rest of the system into swap. That > I believe came about as a result of some unrelated change in the > 10.x stream that upset the previous balance between ARC and the rest > of the VM, so isn't a problem on 9.x.
10.0 had a bug in the page daemon that was fixed in 10-STABLE about three months ago (r265945). The ARC was not the only thing affected by this bug. _______________________________________________ svn-src-head@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-head To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-head-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
