Questions tagged [zfs-arc]

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What is about dnode size and limits

I've copied a reddit post which asks my question and haven't been answered: Greetings, I've been tinkering with a tool to monitor ZFS usage and statistics for the last few weeks. It's encouraged me to learn a lot more about ZFS as I figure out what…
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ZFS ARC memory tuning

Recently we are trying to tune ZFS on a machine which runs on 256RAM memory. Our current ZFS memory variables for the ARC are max 255Gb and min 64Mb. A main issue that we face is that during high peak times getting workflows aborded with not…
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Warm up ZFS cache - force file into l2arc

Currently I use: while true; do cat file >/dev/null echo 3 | sudo tee /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches done to warm up ZFS's l2arc. When I can see accesses are primarily coming from the cache disk, it is done. But I feel pretty silly doing that. Is…
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How to keep linux pagecache minimal?

I want to setup Debian system with ZFS as primary filesystem and some as secondary (ntfs, ext2/4). When I'll read/write from non-ZFS filesystems pagecache will grow and will force zfs arc to shrink. I don't want this behavior. How to keep linux…
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The two SSDs have the same name by-id

There is a single-disk ZFS pool. Now I want to add another ssd to the pool and create a mirror. zpool pool: datapool state: ONLINE scan: scrub repaired 0B in 00:00:03 with 0 errors on Sun Feb 13 00:24:04 2022 config: NAME …
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