Excessive Swapping with FreeBSD NUMA
Poor VM behaviour with ZFS ARC and unbalanced NUMA domains
Early last year I finally diagnosed a long-standing issue with my FreeBSD machine, which always had gobs of memory for things but which frequently encountered swap pressure for no discenerable reason.
This is a slightly edited copy of an unpublushed report I wrote back then, prior to the hardware being retired. Maybe it’ll be useful to someone.
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