On Oct 22, 2012, at 6:52 AM, Chris Nagele <nag...@wildbit.com> wrote:

>> If after it decreases in size it stays there it might be similar to:
>> 
>>        7111576 arc shrinks in the absence of memory pressure
> 
> After it dropped, it did build back up. Today is the first day that
> these servers are working under real production load and it is looking
> much better. arcstat is showing some nice numbers for arc, but l2 is
> still building.
> 
> read  hits  miss  hit%  l2read  l2hits  l2miss  l2hit%  arcsz  l2size
> 19K   17K  2.5K    87    2.5K     490    2.0K      19   148G    371G
> 41K   39K  2.3K    94    2.3K     184    2.1K       7   148G    371G
> 34K   34K   694    98     694      17     677       2   148G    371G
> 16K   15K  1.0K    93    1.0K      16    1.0K       1   148G    371G
> 39K   36K  2.3K    94    2.3K      20    2.3K       0   148G    371G
> 23K   22K   746    96     746      76     670      10   148G    371G
> 49K   47K  1.7K    96    1.7K     249    1.5K      14   148G    371G
> 23K   21K  1.4K    93    1.4K      38    1.4K       2   148G    371G
> 
> My only guess is that the large zfs send / recv streams were affecting
> the cache when they started and finished.

There are other cases where data is evicted from the ARC, though I don't
have a complete list at my fingertips. For example, if a zvol is closed, then
the data for the zvol is evicted.
 -- richard

> 
> Thanks for the responses and help.
> 
> Chris
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