Friday, May 03, 2019

Testing ZFS/L2ARC

Solaris 11.4 - setting zfs_arc_collect_check=0 via mdb (takes immediate effect) or via /etc/system makes ZFS to start feeding l2arc immediately. Notice that this can negatively impact ARC performance so use it with care. This is useful for testing if you want to push some data to into L2ARC quicker/sooner, especially on large memory systems. The variable is checked by arc_can_collect() function (if it returns 1 then l2arc cab be fed, if zero it can't).

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