L2ARC Size in 2025?

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L2ARC tuning guide and common misconceptions

We have had lively discussions of ZFS’ L2ARC, as L2ARC has both changed over the years, and how to tune the L2ARC has improved. However, this discussion was taking up much of the responses in this thread: Here are common misconceptions: Size should be about 5 times RAM and no more than 10 times RAM. This is no longer true. L2ARC should not be added until RAM is maxed out. While more RAM is better / faster, using L2ARC on even 16GB RAM configurations is practical. L2ARC takes up lots of RAM,…