From: "Theo de Raadt" Subject: Re: pools: limit the number of items that can be kept in per cpu cache lists To: David Gwynne Cc: tech@openbsd.org Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2026 19:00:44 -0700 David Gwynne wrote: > the problem with growing the per cpu caches (magazines) too large > is that one cpu can't (by design) take memory from the magazine on > another cpu when there's a memory shortage. it's better to have the > idle items in the depot so they're accessible to any cpu that needs > them. well kind of they can the pagedaemon rips one cpu if the pagedaemon runs on another, it eventually rips from there How small are your machines?