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To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@csail.mit.edu>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: What's the "other" ARC category in top?
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on 07/02/2014 01:48 Garrett Wollman said the following:
> One of my servers says:
> 
> ARC: 93G Total, 31G MFU, 24G MRU, 28M Anon, 3413M Header, 35G Other
> 
> What is my ARC storing 35 GiB of?

dnode and dbuf objects.
Possibly you have lots of ZFS vnodes.

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Andriy Gapon