r/zfs 20h ago

Migrated 37 TiB from mirrors to RAIDZ2 in-place with zero spare hardware — and accidentally exonerated a "failing" drive along the way

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r/zfs 22h ago

ARC using far more memory than configured

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Recently I've been doing a lot of cleanup of files on my NAS which has involved moving/copying around a lot of data. After a while the pool was freezing up and becoming unresponsive and I figured out ZFS's memory usage has been reaching a point where its maxing out my system. According to arc_summary and cat /sys/module/zfs/parameters/zfs_arc_max, ARC is configured to use at most 16GiB of memory, but I witnessed arcstat reporting ARC as using over 200GiB of memory (system has 256GiB total), even causing one of my VMs running on the system to hard crash. Whats going on? How can I limit ARC memory usage?