>Hi, > >thanks for the reply > >I though that was that too, so I wrote a C program that allocated 1 gig of >ram doing nothing with it. So the system was left with only 1 gig for ZFS >and I saw absolutely no performance hit.
Lock it in memory and then try again; if you allocate the memory but you don't use it, you only have a swap reservation, nothing more. But if you allocate and then run mlockall(MCL_CURRENT), you take 1GB of the table. Casper _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss