[oi-dev] Memory use with Firefox

[Gary Mills]

On Thu, Jan 04, 2024 at 10:38:00AM -0800, Bill Sommerfeld via oi-dev wrote:
> 
> swap reports on used, reserved, and available swap space for virtual memory;
> it doesn't report on free physical memory.     ZFS operates largely below
> the virtual memory system and manages physical memory.

I was assuming that available swap space included both physical memory and
disk device space.  I was further assuming that disk space was used last.

> Two ways to look at free physical memory are with the "vmstat" command's
> "free" column, and with "top"; "top" also displays ZFS ARC statistics.

I'll try top.  I used an mdb macro to determine the size of the ZFS ARC.


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