-----Original Message----- From: Wojciech Puchar [mailto:woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl] Sent: 25 May 2009 18:09 To: FreeBSD-Questions@freebsd.org Cc: Howard Jones; Graeme Dargie; Valentin Bud Subject: Re: FreeBSD & Software RAID
> > I have looked at ZFS recently. Appears to be a memory hog, needs about 1 > GB especially if large file transfers may occur over gigabit ethernet while it CAN be set up on 256MB machine with a little big flags in loader.conf (should be autotuned anyway) - it generally takes as much memory as it's available, and LOTS of CPU power. with similar operations ZFS takes 10-20 TIMES more CPU than UFS and it's NOT faster than properly configured UFS. doesn't make any sense _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" Ok granted this is a server sat in my house and it is not a "mission" critical server in a large business, personally I have can live with ZFS taking a bit longer vs resilience. From just looking at my system at the moment I have 1.8GB of free ram from a total of 4GB. Regards Graeme _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
