On Fri, 16 Jul 2010, Michael Johnson wrote:

Just curious, why do you say I'd be able to get away with less RAM in FreeBSD
(as compared to NexentaStor, I'm assuming)?  I don't know tons about the OSs in
question; is FreeBSD just leaner in general?

The FreeBSD OS itself is normally leaner but FreeBSD plus zfs is not (yet) as memory efficient as Solaris. Solaris and zfs do the Vulcan mind-meld when it comes to memory but FreeBSD does not.

Bob
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