> with 4 cores and 2-4G of ram. not sure 2G is enough... at least with 64bit there are no kernel space issues.
6 % echo '::memstat' | mdb -k Page Summary Pages MB %Tot ------------ ---------------- ---------------- ---- Kernel 692075 2703 66% Anon 33265 129 3% Exec and libs 8690 33 1% Page cache 1143 4 0% Free (cachelist) 3454 13 0% Free (freelist) 307400 1200 29% Total 1046027 4086 Physical 1046026 4086 this tree on the 64bit v20z box: Page Summary Pages MB %Tot ------------ ---------------- ---------------- ---- Kernel 668799 2612 85% Anon 38477 150 5% Exec and libs 4881 19 1% Page cache 5363 20 1% Free (cachelist) 7566 29 1% Free (freelist) 59052 230 8% Total 784138 3063 Physical 784137 3063 and the same tree on a 32bit box: Page Summary Pages MB %Tot ------------ ---------------- ---------------- ---- Kernel 261359 1020 33% Anon 52314 204 7% Exec and libs 12245 47 2% Page cache 9885 38 1% Free (cachelist) 6816 26 1% Free (freelist) 7408819027247 240518168576 593093167776006144% Total 784266 3063 Physical 784265 3063 from http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/message.jspa?messageID=173580 8 % ./zfs-mem-used checking pool map size [B]: root 358424 checking pool map size [B]: z 4162512 9 % cat zfs-mem-used #!/bin/sh echo '::spa' | mdb -k | grep ACTIVE \ | while read pool_ptr state pool_name do echo "checking pool map size [B]: $pool_name" echo "${pool_ptr}::walk metaslab|::print -d struct metaslab ms_smo.smo_objsize" \ | mdb -k \ | nawk '{sub("^0t","",$3);sum+=$3}END{print sum}' done _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss