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Diffstat (limited to 'man/man1/arcstat.1')
-rw-r--r-- | man/man1/arcstat.1 | 24 |
1 files changed, 22 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/man/man1/arcstat.1 b/man/man1/arcstat.1 index 6dcc39b67..9113b76af 100644 --- a/man/man1/arcstat.1 +++ b/man/man1/arcstat.1 @@ -236,7 +236,7 @@ Time .sp .ne 2 .na -\fBarcsz \fR +\fBsize \fR .ad .RS 14n ARC size @@ -245,6 +245,15 @@ ARC size .sp .ne 2 .na +\fBarcsz \fR +.ad +.RS 14n +Alias for \fBsize\fR +.RE + +.sp +.ne 2 +.na \fBdread \fR .ad .RS 14n @@ -392,7 +401,18 @@ ARC reclaim needed \fBfree \fR .ad .RS 14n -ARC free memory +The ARC's idea of how much free memory there is, which includes evictable memory in the page cache. +Since the ARC tries to keep \fBavail\fR above zero, \fBavail\fR is usually more instructive to observe than \fBfree\fR. +.RE + +.sp +.ne 2 +.na +\fBavail \fR +.ad +.RS 14n +The ARC's idea of how much free memory is available to it, which is a bit less than \fBfree\fR. +May temporarily be negative, in which case the ARC will reduce the target size \fBc\fR. .RE .\" |