Chris Siebenmann wrote: > | There are two issues here. One is the number of pools, but the other > | is the small amount of RAM in the server. To be honest, most laptops > | today come with 2 GBytes, and most servers are in the 8-16 GByte range > | (hmmm... I suppose I could look up the average size we sell...) > > Speaking as a sysadmin (and a Sun customer), why on earth would I have > to provision 8 GB+ of RAM on my NFS fileservers? I would much rather > have that memory in the NFS client machines, where it can actually be > put to work by user programs.
This depends entirely on the amount of disk & CPU on the fileserver... A Thumper w/ 48 TB of disk and two dual-core CPUS is prob. somewhat under-provisioned w/ 8 GB of RAM. - Bart -- Bart Smaalders Solaris Kernel Performance [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://blogs.sun.com/barts "You will contribute more with mercurial than with thunderbird." _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
