Benjamin Lutz wrote:
Hello,

I've set up a FreeBSD-8.0/amd64 system with ZFS as a home server, and I'm a bit puzzled by it's memory usage pattern; I'm seeing total memory usage oscillate between roughly 50% and 90% of my RAM. So I've tracked memory usage over the course of about 12 hours and graphed it here:

http://www.maxlor.com/temp/mem.png

How do you get those categories: kern, proc? I suppose proc could be sum of resident sizes of processes (aka "RES" in top) and kern could be sysctl vm.kmem_size?


In the first half of the graph, there's a torrent download running, which I assume causes the large fluctuations in memory usage. However, memory usage

Large fluctuations in which category? The ARC? (since "proc" doesn't fluctuate much).

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