Hello Rainer, Monday, March 19, 2007, 3:07:54 AM, you wrote:
RH> Thanks for the feedback. Please see below. >> ZFS should give back memory used for cache to system >> if applications are demanding it. Right it should but sometimes it >> won't. >> >> However with databases there's simple workaround - as >> you know how much ram all databases will consume at least you can >> limit ZFS's arc cache to remaining free memory (and possibly reduce >> it even more byt 2-3x factor). For details on how to do it see 'C'mon >> ARC, stay small...' thread here. >> >> So if you have 16GB RAM in a system and want 10GB for >> SGA + another 2GB for Oracle + 1GB for other kernel resources you >> are with 3GB left. >> >> So I would limit arc c_max to 3GB or even to 1GB. RH> I was of the understanding that this kernel setting was only RH> introduced in newer Nevada builds. Does this actually work under Solaris 10, Update 3? Yes -- Best regards, Robert mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://milek.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss