Comment on What's your opinion on Ubiquiti/Unifi gear?
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 3 days agoIt does take time to free ram. If you need the ram for other things it is best practice to limit the arc cache
Comment on What's your opinion on Ubiquiti/Unifi gear?
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 3 days agoIt does take time to free ram. If you need the ram for other things it is best practice to limit the arc cache
Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
Only when you have to write out to swap. In the case of something like ZFS, it stores data in RAM, looks for it there, then looks on the disk. So freeing up the RAM is instantaneous; you just mark the space as free, then the other process writes into it.