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From: "Alexander Zagrebin" <alexz@visp.ru>
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Subject: RE: ZFS and UFS on the same box. Cache memory allocation issue.
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> > As result UFS returns memory to "free" pool and ZFS can 
> allocate it for ARC.
> > It significantly increases ZFS performance.
> > 
> > Is there an another workaround?
> 
> do you know about the following ZFS loader tunables:
> 
> vfs.zfs.arc_min="400M"
> vfs.zfs.arc_max="500M"
> 
> These should be added to /boot/loader.conf (and they can of course be
> adjusted to make your system behave well ...)

Yes, I do.
vfs.zfs.arc_min would be used at this situation, but it seems that setting
this sysctl doesn't help.

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Alexander Zagrebin