Setting "zfs_arc_max" value in FreeBSD 8.

[Jorge Medina]

On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 6:19 AM, Sherin George <list at sheringeorge.co.cc>wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am trying to tune ZFS file system by setting "zfs_arc_max" value in
> FreeBSD 8.
>
> In solaris, it is achieved like this
>
> ==============================
> ===================
> For example, if an application needs 5 GBytes of memory on a system with
> 36-GBytes of memory, you could set the arc maximum to 30 GBytes,
> (0x780000000 or 32212254720 bytes). Set the zfs:zfs_arc_max parameter in
> the
> /etc/system file:
>
> set zfs:zfs_arc_max = 0x780000000
>
> or
>
> set zfs:zfs_arc_max = 32212254720
> =================================================
>
> But, I couldn't find /etc/system file in FreeBSD.
>
> Could some one please guide me to correctly configure "zfs_arc_max" in
> FreeBSD 8.
>
> set in /etc/sysctl.conf
man sysctl.conf
-- 
Jorge Andrés Medina Oliva.