Re: zfs pool behavior - is it ever freed?

2023-07-28 Thread Greg Troxel
Tobias Nygren writes: > n Thu, 27 Jul 2023 06:43:45 -0400 > Greg Troxel wrote: > >> Thus it seems there is a limit for zfs usage, but it is simply >> sometimes too high depending on available RAM. > > I use this patch on my RPi4, which I feel improves things. > People might find it

Re: Talking to an external CD

2023-07-28 Thread Todd Gruhn
In VLC there is no 'File > Open' I found Media > Open File -- is this is what you mean? On Mon, Jul 24, 2023 at 7:46 PM Benny Siegert wrote: > > > > port 3 addr 7: high speed, self powered, config 1, Mass Storage > > Device(0xa120), USB2.0 External(0x1c6b), rev 1.60(0x0160), serial > >

Re: nvmm woes: won't load

2023-07-28 Thread Greg Troxel
"Jonathan A. Kollasch" writes: > All too old, need the Unrestricted Guest feature on Intel for nvmm. Thanks - that's a huge clue, not turned up in my previous searching. Interesting -- that's not what the man page says, so I guess we should fix the man page. reading, it seems "Unrestricted

Re: nvmm woes: won't load

2023-07-28 Thread Jonathan A. Kollasch
All too old, need the Unrestricted Guest feature on Intel for nvmm. On Fri, Jul 28, 2023 at 01:09:52PM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote: > I am trying to run qemu/nvmm because of zfs memory problems. But I'd > like nvmm to work anyway, so zfs is irrelevant here. > > I have a Dell Inspiron 560 from

nvmm woes: won't load

2023-07-28 Thread Greg Troxel
I am trying to run qemu/nvmm because of zfs memory problems. But I'd like nvmm to work anyway, so zfs is irrelevant here. I have a Dell Inspiron 560 from around 2010 (my computers were free to good home, so I'm not really sure). This is a netbsd-10 system that's up to date as of June 28. (Will

Re: zfs pool behavior - is it ever freed?

2023-07-28 Thread Michael van Elst
On Fri, Jul 28, 2023 at 12:26:57PM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote: > mlel...@serpens.de (Michael van Elst) writes: > > > g...@lexort.com (Greg Troxel) writes: > > > >>I'm not either, but if there is a precise description/code of what they > >>did, that lowers the barrier to us stealing* it. (* There

Re: zfs pool behavior - is it ever freed?

2023-07-28 Thread Greg Troxel
mlel...@serpens.de (Michael van Elst) writes: > g...@lexort.com (Greg Troxel) writes: > >>I'm not either, but if there is a precise description/code of what they >>did, that lowers the barrier to us stealing* it. (* There is of course >>a long tradition of improvements from various *BSD being

Re: zfs pool behavior - is it ever freed?

2023-07-28 Thread Michael van Elst
g...@lexort.com (Greg Troxel) writes: >I'm not either, but if there is a precise description/code of what they >did, that lowers the barrier to us stealing* it. (* There is of course >a long tradition of improvements from various *BSD being applied to >others.) The FreeBSD code is already there

Re: zfs pool behavior - is it ever freed?

2023-07-28 Thread Greg Troxel
Mr Roooster writes: > I'm not sure they did a lot more than expose the ARC limit as a sysctl. I'm not either, but if there is a precise description/code of what they did, that lowers the barrier to us stealing* it. (* There is of course a long tradition of improvements from various *BSD being

Re: zfs pool behavior - is it ever freed?

2023-07-28 Thread Mr Roooster
On Thu, 27 Jul 2023 at 19:28, Greg Troxel wrote: > > Mike Pumford writes: > [snip] > > > If I've read it right there needs to be a mechanism for memory > > pressure to force ZFS to release memory. Doing it after all the > > processes have been swapped to disk is way too late as the chances are >