ZFS cache consumes a lot of memory

[K.J]

Can someone help me with this?

My freenas setup consumes a lot of ecc ram.
I am still testing as a new user of freenas.
In the near future I will buy several new disks.

Currently I am using an old 1000 Gb drive for Back-Up and Plex.
On the second disk of 500 Gb run the two Ip cameras.

This uses over 10 gb of the 16gb ecc ram.
Treunas itself is installed on a Samsung V-NAND SSD 970EVO Plus NVMeM.2 250 Gb.

See pictures.

 

[hescominsoon]

it's supposed to. This is one of the ways zfs maintains performance along with data integrity. as long as swap is not being used high ram usage is normal.

 

[SweetAndLow]

Unused ram is wasted ram

 

[morganL]

More specifically, it only uses RAM that is available...