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20GB of RAM but barely utilised

Posted: 26 Mar 2024, 07:24
by DigitalAnalog
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?

Re: 20GB of RAM but barely utilised

Posted: 26 Mar 2024, 07:40
by Gremlin
Hyper-cache.

Re: 20GB of RAM but barely utilised

Posted: 26 Mar 2024, 07:52
by DigitalAnalog
I thought Hyper Cache uses SSDs?

Re: 20GB of RAM but barely utilised

Posted: 26 Mar 2024, 07:53
by Gremlin
Yes, but it needs ram to function as well.

Re: 20GB of RAM but barely utilised

Posted: 26 Mar 2024, 08:09
by DigitalAnalog
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?