On 08/27/2012 10:37 AM, Yuri Vorobyev wrote: > Is there any way to disable ARC for testing and leave prefetch enabled?
No. The reason is quite simply because prefetch is a mechanism separate from your direct application's read requests. Prefetch runs on ahead of your anticipated read requests and places blocks it expects you'll need in the ARC, so obviously by disabling the ARC, you've disabled prefetch as well. You can get around the problem by exporting and importing the dataset between testing runs, which will clear the ARC, so do: # dd if=/dev/zero of=testfile bs=1024k count=10000 # zpool export sas1 # zpool import sas1 # dd if=testfile of=/dev/null bs=1024k Cheers, -- Saso _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
