From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from firstgate.proxmox.com (firstgate.proxmox.com [212.224.123.68]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by lists.proxmox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 35E9D9784E for ; Tue, 5 Mar 2024 13:59:15 +0100 (CET) Received: from firstgate.proxmox.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by firstgate.proxmox.com (Proxmox) with ESMTP id 166BF8035 for ; Tue, 5 Mar 2024 13:59:15 +0100 (CET) Received: from proxmox-new.maurer-it.com (proxmox-new.maurer-it.com [94.136.29.106]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by firstgate.proxmox.com (Proxmox) with ESMTPS for ; Tue, 5 Mar 2024 13:59:14 +0100 (CET) Received: from proxmox-new.maurer-it.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by proxmox-new.maurer-it.com (Proxmox) with ESMTP id 50E2A487D4 for ; Tue, 5 Mar 2024 13:59:14 +0100 (CET) From: Christoph Heiss To: pve-devel@lists.proxmox.com Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2024 13:58:59 +0100 Message-ID: <20240305125907.388891-1-c.heiss@proxmox.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.43.1 In-Reply-To: <20240305121338.264017-1-c.heiss@proxmox.com> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-SPAM-LEVEL: Spam detection results: 0 AWL 0.005 Adjusted score from AWL reputation of From: address BAYES_00 -1.9 Bayes spam probability is 0 to 1% DMARC_MISSING 0.1 Missing DMARC policy KAM_DMARC_STATUS 0.01 Test Rule for DKIM or SPF Failure with Strict Alignment SPF_HELO_NONE 0.001 SPF: HELO does not publish an SPF Record SPF_PASS -0.001 SPF: sender matches SPF record T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE -0.01 - Subject: [pve-devel] [PATCH docs 2/2] installation: document `ARC max size` option for ZFS-on-root installations X-BeenThere: pve-devel@lists.proxmox.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Proxmox VE development discussion List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2024 12:59:15 -0000 This has been part of the installer since the 8.1 release. Signed-off-by: Christoph Heiss --- pve-installation.adoc | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/pve-installation.adoc b/pve-installation.adoc index 6b44fc0..3e12727 100644 --- a/pve-installation.adoc +++ b/pve-installation.adoc @@ -277,6 +277,13 @@ Defines which checksumming algorithm should be used for `rpool`. Defines the `copies` parameter for `rpool`. Check the `zfs(8)` manpage for the semantics, and why this does not replace redundancy on disk-level. +`ARC max size`:: + +Defines the maximum size the ARC can grow to and thus limits the amount of +memory ZFS will use. See also the section on +xref:sysadmin_zfs_limit_memory_usage[how to limit ZFS memory usage] for more +details. + `hdsize`:: Defines the total hard disk size to be used. This is useful to save free space -- 2.43.1