FreeBSD ate my ram
16 points by orib
16 points by orib
This post, and other similar ones, can be summarized by saying that Unix-like OSes invariably treat free memory is memory that can be used as cache, so anything being used as cache should be considered free. With ZFS and other things, we add more things to the category that includes all things "cache".
Using 32 bit values for memory in this day is a bit silly, as is using a sysctl that's there for compatibility. Glad OP has made a PR to report the bugs.
...which reminds me that I should make a PR for htop with the fix so it'll compile on VAX...