Info on tuning the ARC was just recently updated:
http://www.solarisinternals.com/wiki/index.php/ZFS_Best_Practices_Guide#Memory_and_Dynamic_Reconfiguration_Recommendations
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Rainer Heilke writes:
> Thanks for the feedback. Please see below.
>
> > ZFS should give back memory used for cache
Hello Rainer,
Monday, March 19, 2007, 3:07:54 AM, you wrote:
RH> Thanks for the feedback. Please see below.
>> ZFS should give back memory used for cache to system
>> if applications are demanding it. Right it should but sometimes it
>> won't.
>>
>> However with databases there's simple workaro