Determines the maximum size of the ZFS Adaptive Replacement Cache (ARC). See also zfs_arc_min.
Unsigned Integer (64-bit)
75% of memory on systems with less than 4 GB of memory
physmem minus 1 GB on systems with greater than 4 GB of memory
64 MB to physmem
Bytes
No
Yes, the range is validated.
If a future memory requirement is significantly large and well defined, you might consider reducing the value of this parameter to cap the ARC so that it does not compete with the memory requirement. For example, if you know that a future workload requires 20% of memory, it makes sense to cap the ARC such that it does not consume more than the remaining 80% of memory.
Unstable