From 64b28d743f249633a83d0a7d5922332102899353 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Christoph Heiss Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2024 13:58:59 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] installation: document `ARC max size` option for ZFS-on-root installations 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 2c034d6..7291420 100644 --- a/pve-installation.adoc +++ b/pve-installation.adoc @@ -319,6 +319,13 @@ 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 -- 2.39.5