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

[Marco van Tol]

On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 06:56:25AM +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote:
> 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.

Oh, goodlooking!  Thank you, I'll keep it in mind the coming period for
when I run into a system that has both filesystems.

Thanks!

Marco

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