> I've been looking at building this setup in some > cheap eBay rack-mount servers that are generally > single or dual 1.0GHz Pentium III, 1Gb PC133 RAM, and > I'd have to add the SATA II controller into a spare > PCI slot. > > For maximum file system performance of the ZFS pool, > would anyone care to offer hardware recommendations?
For maximum file system performance of the ZFS pool, a 64-bit x86 cpu would be *much* better than a 32-bit x86 cpu. The 32-bit cpu won't use more than ~ 512Mb of RAM for ZFS' ARC cache (no matter how much is installed in the machine); a 64-bit cpu is able to use all of the available RAM for ZFS's cache. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
