ZFS does release memory if I e.g. do a simple malloc(), but using this "intimate shared memory (flag SHM_SHARE_MMU in the call to shmat()), this does not happen. BTW the OS here was Solaris 10 U2; the 8Gb machines I'm using now are running U3.
Hmm, looks like this may have been fixed in U3, that would be good news! That could also explain why one of my collegues didn't have similar problems, I'll check with him tomorrow as I'm not sure which machines he was using. If this is the solution, I guess I shall have to kick myself (*ouch*) for not having asked here before, I did spend quite some time on this, including a "hack" to force the memory to be freed before starting the servers. - Bjorn This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
