Matt,
On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 11:28:50AM -0700, Matt Ingenthron wrote: > > If ZFS is not beinng used significantly, then ARC > > should not grow. ARC grows > > based on the usage (ie. amount of ZFS files/data > > accessed). Hence, if you are > > sure that the ZFS usage is low, things should be > > fine. > > I understand that it won't grow, but I want it to be smaller than the > default. Like I said, I have a use case where I would like to pre-allocate > as many large pages as possible. How can I constrain or shrink it before I > start my other applications? > I can't think if anything else other than what Steffen recommended. Have you already tried the configuration and found problems with it ? Because, looking at the ARC code I see that under memory pressure it should free up buffers making space for other consumers. So, I am curious to know if this has not worked in your case. Thanks and regards, Sanjeev -- ---------------- Sanjeev Bagewadi Solaris RPE Bangalore, India _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
