Artem Kachitchkine wrote:
>James McPherson wrote:
>> Following suggestions from Andre and Rich that this was
>> probably the ARC, I've implemented a 256Mb limit for my
>> system's ARC, per the Solaris Internals wiki:
>>
>> *
>> http://www.solarisinternals.com/wiki/index.php/ZFS_Evil_Tuning_Guide#ARCSIZE
>> * set arc max to 256Mb
>> set zfs:zfs_arc_max=0x10000000
>>
>> And my system now seems to be chugging along quite happily.
>
> Is there something very special about your system that's incompatible
> with ZFS's default policy? I'm asking because the link above says that
> "ZFS is not designed to steal memory from applications" and yet your
> out-of-the-box experience was:
>
> > my system constantly swapping and
> > interactive response for my desktop is horrendous.
Hi Artem,
yeah, my system is a little special :-)
In my global zone I run
gnome
firefox
thunderbird
XEmacs
XChat
pidgin
In my webserver zone I run
exim
apache 2.2.3
tomcat 5.5.17
JRoller 3.mumble
PostgreSQL 8.1
(all of which provide www.jmcp.homeunix.com)
In my punchin zone I run
thunderbird
firefox
bugster
cscope
XChat
James C. McPherson
--
Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris
Sun Microsystems
http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog
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