ARC Memory Allocation on Dragonfish TrueNAS 24 and Other Issues

Here is my memory pie chart, isn’t it pretty?

Now let’s go crazy and fill 60GiB of my memory as quickly as I possibly can (I have no swap)
head -c 60000m /dev/zero | tail


Going… going… and…

No problems, ARC shrinks dynamically. As long as you have enough free space + ARC you should be able to ignore that VM startup warning.

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