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Subject: Re: ZFS ARC max sort of not working?
From: Sean Bruno <sbruno@ignoranthack.me>
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Date: Fri, 04 Jul 2014 09:06:56 -0700
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On Fri, 2014-07-04 at 11:58 -0400, Allan Jude wrote:
> On 2014-07-04 11:56, Sean Bruno wrote:
> > It looks like the following no longer works on head?
> > 
> > vfs.zfs.arc_max="8G"
> > 
> > But this does?
> > 
> > vfs.zfs.arc_max="8589934592"
> > 
> > sean
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> 
> 8G = 8 x 2^30 (1024*1024*1024)
> 
> That is correct.
> 

Sure, but up until recently on head (last month or two) the shorthand of
8G worked.

sean