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on 17/09/2010 11:56 Jeremy Chadwick said the following:
> I don't think you understand how Solaris's VM behaves with ZFS.  It
> behaves very differently than FreeBSD.  On Solaris/OpenSolaris with ZFS,
> you'll see the ARC taking up as much memory as possible -- but unlike
> FreeBSD (AFAIK), when a userland or kernel application requires more
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> memory, the Solaris kernel dynamically releases portions of the ARC.

Can you please explain that "unlike" part?

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Andriy Gapon