Identifying Memory Performance Issues (CLI)

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Use the following procedure to identify and remedy memory hardware bottlenecks on the appliance. Based on the results of the analytic dataset, suggested corrective actions are provided to increase memory performance by installing more DRAM.

Create a worksheet as described in Creating a Worksheet (CLI), select that worksheet, and then enter dataset.
```
hostname:analytics worksheets> select worksheet-000
hostname:analytics worksheet-000> dataset
```

Enter set name=arc.accesses[hit/miss], and then enter commit to add cache ARC accesses broken down by hit/miss to your worksheet.

hostname:analytics worksheet-000 dataset (uncommitted)> set name=arc.accesses[hit/miss]
                           name = arc.accesses[hit/miss]
hostname:analytics worksheet-000 dataset (uncommitted)> commit

Enter done, and then enter done again to exit the context.

hostname:analytics worksheet-000> done
hostname:analytics worksheets> done

Wait at least 10 minutes, and then go to analytics datasets.
Note - Ten minutes is a general guideline. The amount of time may be adjusted if you have shorter-duration workloads that are memory intensive.
```
hostname:> analytics datasets
```

Enter show to view a list of available datasets.

hostname:analytics datasets> show
Datasets:

DATASET     STATE    INCORE  ONDISK  NAME
dataset-000 active    1.27M   15.5M  arc.accesses[hit/miss]
dataset-001 active     517K   9.21M  arc.accesses[hit/miss=metadata hits][L2ARC eligibility]
...
hostname:analytics datasets>

Enter select and the dataset with the name arc.accesses[hit/miss].
In this example, dataset name arc.accesses[hit/miss] corresponds to dataset-000.
```
hostname:analytics datasets> select dataset-000
```
Enter read 600 to read the last 600 seconds, or 10 minutes, of the dataset.
```
hostname:analytics dataset-000> read 600
```

Examine the data.

You may want to install more DRAM when all of the conditions in the following table are present.

Condition	Description
ARC access hits for data or metadata are at least 75-97% compared to misses	The ARC is providing a benefit by storing data or metadata that the applications need.
ARC access hits for data or metadata are significantly greater than prefetch hits	The majority of the ARC accesses are for real applications rather than just the prefetch mechanism.
ARC is accessed at least 10,000 times per second	The appliance is hitting DRAM, which is not the typical utilization of an idle system.
Nearly all memory is consumed by the ARC, leaving very little unused memory	The appliance is utilizing all of the DRAM possible for the ARC, not just serving a hot workload out of a small subset of the DRAM that is already present.