I was making my way through the evil tuning guide and noticed a couple
updates that seem appropriate. I tried to create an account to be
able to add this into the "discussion" tab but account creation seems
to be a NOP.
http://www.solarisinternals.com/wiki/index.php/ZFS_Evil_Tuning_Guide#RFEs
- 6533726 fixed in snv_79. No sign of it in S10 yet.
http://www.solarisinternals.com/wiki/index.php/ZFS_Evil_Tuning_Guide#Solaris_10_8.2F07_and_Solaris_Nevada_.28snv_51.29_Releases
- No need to convert to hex. According to system(4):
set [<module>:]<symbol> {=, |, &} [~][-]<value>
. . .
Operations that are supported for modifying integer
variables are: simple assignment, inclusive bitwise OR,
bitwise AND, one''s complement, and negation. Variables
in a specific loadable module can be targeted for modif-
ication by specifying the variable name prefixed with
the kernel module name and a colon (:) separator. Values
can be specified as hexadecimal (0x10), Octal (046), or
Decimal (5).
http://www.solarisinternals.com/wiki/index.php/ZFS_Evil_Tuning_Guide#RFEs_2
- 6429205 fixed in snv_87.
- Good explanation at
http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/zfs-discuss/2008-April/046937.html
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