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Subject: Re: zfs arc and amount of wired memory
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on 08/02/2012 22:50 Jeremy Chadwick said the following:
> Politely -- recommending this to a user is a good choice of action, but
> the problem is that no user, even an experienced user, is going to know
> what all of the "Types" (vmstat -m) or "ITEMs" (vmstat -z) correlate
> with on the system.

I see no problem with users sharing the output and asking for help interpreting
it.  I do not know of any easier way to analyze problems like this one.

-- 
Andriy Gapon