Hello Mike, Wednesday, June 25, 2008, 2:09:31 PM, you wrote:
MG> dump should scale with memory size, but the size given is completely MG> overkill. On very active (heavy kernel activity) servers with 300+ GB MG> of RAM, I have never seen a (compressed) dump that needed more than 8 MG> GB. Even uncompressed the maximum size I've seen has been in the 18 MG> GB range. This has been without zfs in the mix. It is my MG> understanding that at one time the arc was dumped as part of kernel MG> memory but that was regarded as a bug and has sense been fixed. If MG> the arc is dumped, a value of dump much closer to physical memory is MG> likely to be appropriate. Well, I've seen core dumps bigger than 10GB (even without ZFS)... :) -- Best regards, Robert Milkowski mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://milek.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
