diff --git a/sys/cddl/compat/opensolaris/kern/opensolaris_kmem.c b/sys/cddl/compat/opensolaris/kern/opensolaris_kmem.c
index 10377cd29b7f..fd8798d2e16a 100644
--- a/sys/cddl/compat/opensolaris/kern/opensolaris_kmem.c
+++ b/sys/cddl/compat/opensolaris/kern/opensolaris_kmem.c
@@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ u_int
 kmem_free_count(void)
 {
 
-	return (vm_cnt.v_free_count);
+	return (vm_cnt.v_free_count + vm_cnt.v_cache_count);
 }
 
 u_int
@@ -169,6 +169,13 @@ kmem_size(void)
 	return (kmem_size_val);
 }
 
+uint64_t
+kmem_used(void)
+{
+
+	return (vmem_size(kmem_arena, VMEM_ALLOC));
+}
+
 static int
 kmem_std_constructor(void *mem, int size __unused, void *private, int flags)
 {
diff --git a/sys/cddl/compat/opensolaris/sys/kmem.h b/sys/cddl/compat/opensolaris/sys/kmem.h
index af6cec52cf91..1879ba44a4b3 100644
--- a/sys/cddl/compat/opensolaris/sys/kmem.h
+++ b/sys/cddl/compat/opensolaris/sys/kmem.h
@@ -66,6 +66,7 @@ typedef struct kmem_cache {
 void *zfs_kmem_alloc(size_t size, int kmflags);
 void zfs_kmem_free(void *buf, size_t size);
 uint64_t kmem_size(void);
+uint64_t kmem_used(void);
 u_int kmem_page_count(void);
 
 /*
diff --git a/sys/cddl/contrib/opensolaris/uts/common/fs/zfs/arc.c b/sys/cddl/contrib/opensolaris/uts/common/fs/zfs/arc.c
index 1d97718c70bf..f4bc936e074d 100644
--- a/sys/cddl/contrib/opensolaris/uts/common/fs/zfs/arc.c
+++ b/sys/cddl/contrib/opensolaris/uts/common/fs/zfs/arc.c
@@ -2563,6 +2563,14 @@ arc_reclaim_needed(void)
 #endif	/* sun */
 
 #else
+#ifdef __i386__
+	/* i386 has KVA limits that the raw page counts above don't consider */
+	if (kmem_used() > (kmem_size() * 3) / 4) {
+		DTRACE_PROBE2(arc__reclaim_used, uint64_t,
+		    kmem_used(), uint64_t, (kmem_size() * 3) / 4);
+		return (1);
+	}
+#endif
 	if (spa_get_random(100) == 0)
 		return (1);
 #endif