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> You can tune how the ARC is used:

I know *how* to tune it, what I don't know is *when*. Basically, under 
what sorts of use cases would I want to mess with it, and why? Given my 
contrived media server example, would adjusting the ARC for those 
datasets make a noticeable difference either way?