[OpenIndiana-discuss] Interesting question about L2ARC

[Sašo Kiselkov]

On 09/11/2012 03:27 PM, Dan Swartzendruber wrote:
> 
> Saso, I think you might be on to something here.  This is a handful of VM's,
> none doing anything all that disk intensive, so any disk I/O will tend to be
> somewhat random.  I'm not so worried about premature death of the device,
> since it's a brand-new device, and we're not talking hundreds of terabytes
> per month or anything.  My pool is definitely NOT throughput stressed
> (rarely exceeding a 20-30 MB/sec at most), so latency is more of a priority
> to me.  I'll give this a try, thanks!
> 

What is your ARC size? Chances are your dataset fits entirely in the
ARC. Just a quick guess.

Cheers,
--
Saso