20GB of RAM but barely utilised

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DigitalAnalog
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20GB of RAM but barely utilised

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I added 16GB of SK Hynix DDR4 RAM to my F4-423 for a total of 20GB of RAM including the stock DIMM.

I notice that for general NAS use including SMB/Plex, memory usage rarely goes beyond 1GB, mostly hovering between 500-700MB.

My question is - what use cases or applications readily available in the TOS platfoorm would benefit from this much memory?
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Re: 20GB of RAM but barely utilised

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Hyper-cache.
F5-221 5.1.123, 8GB System Partition on 3 x 4TB Traid; 3TB EXT4
F2-221 TOS6 (Beta), 8GB System Partition on 2 x 6TB in Traid. (Latest Update 11/04/24)
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Re: 20GB of RAM but barely utilised

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I thought Hyper Cache uses SSDs?
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Re: 20GB of RAM but barely utilised

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Yes, but it needs ram to function as well.
F5-221 5.1.123, 8GB System Partition on 3 x 4TB Traid; 3TB EXT4
F2-221 TOS6 (Beta), 8GB System Partition on 2 x 6TB in Traid. (Latest Update 11/04/24)
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Re: 20GB of RAM but barely utilised

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I see. I actually prefer to use my SSDs for storage, so I wonder if there's a way to use excess RAM for caching in TOS, similar to ZFS ARC caching?
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