Re: Another ZFS ARC memory question

2012-03-02 Thread Luke Marsden
On Fri, 2012-03-02 at 10:25 +0100, Alexander Leidinger wrote: > Quoting Slawa Olhovchenkov (from Thu, 1 Mar 2012 > 18:28:26 +0400): > > > On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 05:14:37AM +1100, Peter Jeremy wrote: > > > >> > * what is the community's advice for production machines running > >> >

Re: Another ZFS ARC memory question

2012-03-02 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Quoting Slawa Olhovchenkov (from Thu, 1 Mar 2012 18:28:26 +0400): On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 05:14:37AM +1100, Peter Jeremy wrote: > * what is the community's advice for production machines running >ZFS on FreeBSD, is manually limiting the ARC cache (to ensure >that there'

Re: Another ZFS ARC memory question

2012-03-01 Thread Slawa Olhovchenkov
On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 05:14:37AM +1100, Peter Jeremy wrote: > > * what is the community's advice for production machines running > >ZFS on FreeBSD, is manually limiting the ARC cache (to ensure > >that there's enough actually free memory to handle a spike in > >appli

Re: Another ZFS ARC memory question

2012-02-27 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2012-Feb-24 11:06:52 +, Luke Marsden wrote: >We're running 8.2-RELEASE v15 in production on 24GB RAM amd64 machines >but have been having trouble with short spikes in application memory >usage resulting in huge amounts of swapping, bringing the whole machine >to its knees and crashing it h