zfs arc - just take it all and be good to me

[Peter Jeremy]

On 2010-Aug-11 21:43:02 +0000, Marco van Tol <marco at tols.org> wrote:
>On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 01:08:51PM -0700, Artem Belevich wrote:
>> There's a hack floating around that attempts to force kernel into
>> freeing up memory from inactive/cache lists before draining ARC. It
>> does help a bit with this issue, but it's still a hack.
>
>That makes sense Artem, thanks.  I think you mean the posts with the
>perl one-liner I used in my tests as well.  (perl variable assignment of
>1.5GB in the posts their version)

I suspect Artem is referring to his patch at http://pastebin.com/ZCkzkWcs
which I have tweaked somewhat (see the last patch in 
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=146410 ).

Whilst these patches _are_ hacks, they seem to do a good job of
making ZFS and UFS play together.

-- 
Peter Jeremy
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