Tag: ARC
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ZFS on Linux: How to find the arc stats (was arcstat.py)
This has now changed; run the following to find the adaptive read cache stats (ARC): cat /proc/spl/kstat/zfs/arcstats You can gleam some really useful information out of how your RAM is being utilised and what your required ARC size might be from the results – this may be a topic for a future post,…
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ZFS on Linux (Ubuntu) – arcstat.py is now available! How do you run it?
UPDATE: This information is now out of date, see new post here. One very handy ZFS-related command which has been missing from the standard ZFS on Linux implementation has been arcstat.py. This script provides a great deal of useful information about how effective your adaptive read cache (ARC) is. ZFSoL 0.6.2 includes it,…
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ZFS: Adding an SSD as a cache drive
ZFS uses any free RAM to cache accessed files, speeding up access times; this cache is called the ARC. RAM is read at gigabytes per second, so it is an extremely fast cache. It is possible to add a secondary cache – the L2ARC (level 2 ARC) in the form of solid state drives. SSDs…