zfs discuss - Sep 2007 - Do multiple pools compete for memory?

I observed the following on a machine running Solaris 10 update 4:
I was sending a zfs with zfs send to a zpool on the same machine for backup
purposes. After a while (the machine was otherwise idle), the desktop froze and
a couple of seconds later I saw that the page scanner had kicked in and was
scanning at a rate of about 10k pages per second. So obviously ZFS was memory
hungry, but I never saw the same effect with a single pool on one machine. So
that makes me wonder: do multiple zfs pools compete against each other for
memory?

- Thomas
 
 
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