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Date:      Tue, 19 Jan 2010 15:46:04 +0530
From:      Sherin George <list@sheringeorge.co.cc>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Setting "zfs_arc_max" value in FreeBSD 8.
Message-ID:  <7f14551c1001190216w49814186n1ada2b721380502b@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <hj3v0i$i2p$1@ger.gmane.org>
References:  <7f14551c1001190119x46c6b04dx2362cd1252f0d81@mail.gmail.com> <hj3v0i$i2p$1@ger.gmane.org>

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Thanks Ivan :)

I found It. add following in /boot/loader.conf

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vfs.zfs.arc_max="10244M"
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Best Regards,
Sherin

On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 3:15 PM, Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org> wrote:

> On 01/19/10 10:19, Sherin George wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am trying to tune ZFS file system by setting "zfs_arc_max" value in
>> FreeBSD 8.
>>
>> In solaris, it is achieved like this
>>
>> =================================================
>> For example, if an application needs 5 GBytes of memory on a system with
>> 36-GBytes of memory, you could set the arc maximum to 30 GBytes,
>> (0x780000000 or 32212254720 bytes). Set the zfs:zfs_arc_max parameter in
>> the
>> /etc/system file:
>>
>> set zfs:zfs_arc_max = 0x780000000
>>
>> or
>>
>> set zfs:zfs_arc_max = 32212254720
>> =================================================
>>
>> But, I couldn't find /etc/system file in FreeBSD.
>>
>> Could some one please guide me to correctly configure "zfs_arc_max" in
>> FreeBSD 8.
>>
>
> You should probably start here:
>
> http://wiki.freebsd.org/ZFSTuningGuide
>
> and more generally, here:
>
> http://wiki.freebsd.org/ZFS
>
>
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