Hi, I have a mac with 16gb of RAM. The kernel_task is using 7.49GB of RAM during intensive disk writes, and the terminal command shows kstat.spl.misc.spl_misc.os_mem_alloc: 6471024640. I haven't seen the kernal_task go above 7.49GB. I have two 4TB mirrored volumes.
Just curious how ZFS allocates RAM. If I upgrade my RAM to 32GB, will ZFS allocate itself even more RAM, or is the 7.49GB how much it will use, regardless of the amount of total RAM?
Most of the time, I'm using 14gb out of my total 16GB of RAM on my system. If I launch more applications, will ZFS decrease it's RAM usage when it senses other applications are trying to allocate ram?
Thanks for your help