Do you have the zfs primarycache property on this release ?
if so, you could set it to 'metadata'  or none.

     primarycache=all | none | metadata

         Controls what is cached in the primary cache  (ARC).  If
         this  property  is set to "all", then both user data and
         metadata is cached. If this property is set  to  "none",
         then  neither  user data nor metadata is cached. If this
         property is set to "metadata",  then  only  metadata  is
         cached. The default value is "all".


-r


Udo Grabowski writes:
 > Hi,
 > we've capped Arcsize via set zfs:zfs_arc_max = 0x20000000 in /etc/system to 
 > 512 MB, since ARC 
 > still does not release memory when applications need it (this is another 
 > bug). But this hard limit is 
 > not obeyed, instead, when traversing all files in a large and deep 
 > directory, we see the values below 
 > (arc started with 300 MB). After a while, machine (Ultra 20 M2 with 6GB) 
 > swaps and then, hours later, freezes completely (even no reaction on quick 
 > push power button, no ping, no mouse, have to hard 
 > reset). Arc summary shows clearly that limits are not what they supposed to 
 > be. If this is working as
 > intended, then the intention must be changed. As poorly as ARC is working 
 > now, it's absolutely 
 > necessary that a hard limit is indeed a hard limit for ARC. Please fix this. 
 > Is there anything I can do to
 > really limit or switch off the ARC completely ? It's breaking our production 
 > work often since we've
 > installed OSol (we came from SXDE 1.08 which worked better), we must find a 
 > way to stop this 
 > problem as fast as possible !
 > 
 > arcstat:
 >     Time  read  miss  miss%  dmis  dm%  pmis  pm%  mmis  mm%  arcsz     c  
 > 13:22:16   95M   23M     24   10M   14   12M   64   22M   24   963M  536M  
 > 13:22:17    2K   256     10    79    6   177   15   222    9   965M  536M  
 > 13:22:18    2K   490     22   119   10   371   38   482   22   970M  536M  
 > 13:22:19    4K   214      4   150    6    64    3   140    3   971M  536M  
 > 13:22:20    2K   427     19    57    4   370   37   419   19   971M  536M  
 > 13:22:21    1K   208     19   103   17   105   21   202   19   971M  536M  
 > ....
 > 13:23:16    1K   481     27    80    8   401   47   478   27     1G  536M  
 > 13:23:17    2K   255     11   125   10   130   13   218   10     1G  536M  
 > and counting...
 > arc_summary:
 > System Memory:
 >          Physical RAM:  6134 MB
 >          Free Memory :  1739 MB
 >          LotsFree:      95 MB
 > 
 > ZFS Tunables (/etc/system):
 >          set zfs:zfs_arc_max = 0x20000000
 > 
 > ARC Size:
 >          Current Size:             1357 MB (arcsize)
 >          Target Size (Adaptive):   512 MB (c)
 >          Min Size (Hard Limit):    191 MB (zfs_arc_min)
 >          Max Size (Hard Limit):    512 MB (zfs_arc_max)
 > 
 > ARC Size Breakdown:
 >          Most Recently Used Cache Size:          93%    479 MB (p)
 >          Most Frequently Used Cache Size:         6%    32 MB (c-p)
 > 
 > ARC Efficency:
 >          Cache Access Total:             97131108
 >          Cache Hit Ratio:      75%       73244441       [Defined State for 
 > buffer]
 >          Cache Miss Ratio:     24%       23886667       [Undefined State for 
 > Buffer]
 >          REAL Hit Ratio:       67%       65874421       [MRU/MFU Hits Only]
 > 
 >          Data Demand   Efficiency:    66%
 >          Data Prefetch Efficiency:     8%
 > 
 >         CACHE HITS BY CACHE LIST:
 >           Anon:                       --%        Counter Rolled.
 >           Most Recently Used:         15%        11463028 (mru)         [ 
 > Return Customer ]
 >           Most Frequently Used:       74%        54411393 (mfu)         [ 
 > Frequent Customer ]
 >           Most Recently Used Ghost:   10%        7537123 (mru_ghost)    [ 
 > Return Customer Evicted, Now Back ]
 >           Most Frequently Used Ghost: 19%        14619417 (mfu_ghost)   [ 
 > Frequent Customer Evicted, Now Back ]
 >         CACHE HITS BY DATA TYPE:
 >           Demand Data:                 3%        2716192 
 >           Prefetch Data:               0%        3506 
 >           Demand Metadata:            86%        63089419 
 >           Prefetch Metadata:          10%        7435324 
 >         CACHE MISSES BY DATA TYPE:
 >           Demand Data:                 5%        1365132 
 >           Prefetch Data:               0%        36544 
 >           Demand Metadata:            40%        9664064 
 >           Prefetch Metadata:          53%        12820927
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