[pve-devel] [PATCH docs 2/2] installation: document `ARC max size` option for ZFS-on-root installations

Christoph Heiss c.heiss at proxmox.com
Tue Mar 5 13:58:59 CET 2024


This has been part of the installer since the 8.1 release.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Heiss <c.heiss at proxmox.com>
---
 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





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