On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 2:55 PM, Gregory Durham
<gregory.dur...@gmail.com> wrote:

> 3) In order to deal with caching, I am writing larger amounts of data
> to the disk then I have memory for.

The other trick is to limit the ARC to a much smaller value and then
you can test with sane amounts of data.

Add the following to /etc/system and reboot:

set zfs:zfs_arc_max = <bytes>

<bytes> can be decimal or hex (but don't use a scale like 4g). Best to
keep it a power of 2.

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