Re: [perf-discuss] perf-discuss Digest, Vol 48, Issue 17

2009-07-03 Thread Sean Liu
t I have is 1GB free, it'll be difficult for me. Sean --- On Tue, 6/30/09, Richard Elling wrote: > From: Richard Elling > Subject: Re: [perf-discuss] perf-discuss Digest, Vol 48, Issue 17 > To: "Sean Liu" > Cc: perf-discuss@opensolaris.org > Date: Tuesday,

Re: [perf-discuss] perf-discuss Digest, Vol 48, Issue 17

2009-07-01 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Tue, 30 Jun 2009, Richard Elling wrote: UFS has a relatively small write buffer and ZFS could consume up to 1/8 of memory for writes (located in the ARC). There is some question about whether 1/8 of memory is a good guess. Anecdotal evidence suggests that there are cases where the 1/8 limit i

Re: [perf-discuss] perf-discuss Digest, Vol 48, Issue 17

2009-06-30 Thread johansen
David Collier-Brown wrote: > Actually Sean's asking for a clue about the *virtual* memory behavior. The pagelist and the cachelist contain page objects, which have an associated physical page. He's actually talking about physical memory, since you'll never have more pages on any of these lists th

Re: [perf-discuss] perf-discuss Digest, Vol 48, Issue 17

2009-06-30 Thread Richard Elling
Sean Liu wrote: David & Richard, Thanks for continuing on the discussion under a new topic. I suppose the discussion board software had a little too much to drink last night ;-) First of all - David I am not the Sean from SSHA, but I am in Toronto. I'll send you a note shortly to have a discu

Re: [perf-discuss] perf-discuss Digest, Vol 48, Issue 17

2009-06-30 Thread Sean Liu
David & Richard, Thanks for continuing on the discussion under a new topic. I suppose the discussion board software had a little too much to drink last night ;-) First of all - David I am not the Sean from SSHA, but I am in Toronto. I'll send you a note shortly to have a discussion some time :-

Re: [perf-discuss] perf-discuss Digest, Vol 48, Issue 17

2009-06-29 Thread Richard Elling
David Collier-Brown wrote: Sean Liu wrote: Now - let's take a look from another angle: a. When people take a look at vmstat output, they don't expect an exact number of bytes of free memory, they need a rough number however. So some reasonably accurate number would be good enough. Rich

Re: [perf-discuss] perf-discuss Digest, Vol 48, Issue 17

2009-06-29 Thread David Collier-Brown
Sean Liu wrote: > Now - let's take a look from another angle: > a. When people take a look at vmstat output, they don't expect > an exact number of bytes of free memory, they need a rough number > however. So some reasonably accurate number would be good enough. Richard Elling replied: | good eno