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Subject: Re: ZFS: Disabling ARC?
From: Artem Belevich <art@freebsd.org>
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On Sat, Aug 1, 2015 at 8:12 AM, Quartz <quartz@sneakertech.com> wrote:

> 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?


Measure it. Find something that matters to you and see whether particular
ARC parameters make any difference in *your* workload.

--Artem