crb: Just bool settings for those. yes/no, true/false, 1/0, on/off, whatever.

crb: did you check the header for those YES/NO? do you mean the EDIT and INHERIT values listed?

ok, so i decided not to set my own ARC max this time, and i'm already seeing it big and swapping. isn't the default to use a certain amount of ram and stop?

are you using bhyve by chance?

no, this has no jails or vms.

i mean, it's not swapping constantly

demosthenes.org/gtnh/localhost/localhost/zfs_arcstats_size.html demosthenes.org/gtnh/localhost/localhost/memory.html demosthenes.org/gtnh/localhost/localhost/swap.html

previous server i limited ARC, this was simple enough i thought it shouldn't matter. it isn't swapping constantly, so maybe i just leave it alone

you have arc size dropping from 8G line to 4G line, what is causing that to happen?

did reboot with new arc max limit?

so thats a long term graph, recently moved to new HW and new freebsd install. this time i didn't set max. there have been 2 reboots since the new hw

if you're on the graph, the red "target size" being variable is on the new hw.

well, by default, the arc max is limited by size of ram - some space; while we are not reached that limit, the target size depends on pressure on arc. Now, if you got arc filling up the free memory, you can see the reclaim+growth changes on arc depending on application memory consumption.

paging (pagein/pageout) is similar mechanism but acting on memory used by apps - virtually every apps have some amount of inactive data in memory which is not used that often and having it paged out does not affect application performance too much.

now, if apps are having hard time (meaning memory allocations are taking long time to get completed) getting memory they need, then its time to tell arc to have smaller arc max

yeah, i'm watching to see if swap becomes sustained

whats the name of that desktop wifi networks app ?

wifimgr

Hi, I'm trying to zfs send ... | ssh ... zfs recv a dataset (the ssh side is connected as a normal user, part of the wheel group), but I'm getting "cannot mount '/zroot/vms/devel': failed to create mountpoint: Permission denied".

allowed permissions: create,mount,snapshot,receive,mountpoint

on zroot/vms

martinrame: it might be that the remote user can't create the directory in /zroot/vms , due to permissions on that directory

jmnbtslsQE: fixed with: zfs set mountpoint=none zroot/vms on the receiving side.

great

I've stumbled on a strange problem during installing FreeBSD from memstick. When the distribution files are downloaded ("Archive extraction") I get the error "[...] /: filesystem full". I partition the disk manually using the shell option, but that shouldn't have anything to do with this problem, no?

I use QEMU for the installatoin process and I plan to copy the .qcow2 image to a physical disk when the installaton is finihed.

In bsdinstall, are the distribution files downloaded to the installatoin medium, to a tmpfs or to the target disk?

...I've configured the QEMU-container with about 8 GB RAM, which I think should be sufficient.

Also, when I do df -h, it says that "/dev/ufs/FreeBSD_Install" has -115M available space and 109% capacity, which seems a little strange. So I feel a little bit lost:-/.

Sorry to bother you - the problem solved itself. :) I had set the mountpoint of the zpool at /mnt and the mountpoint of the root dataset also to /mnt, which resulted the target disk being mounted to /mnt/mnt/, so I set mountpoint of the target dataset t /. :)