On Jul 18, 2010, at 3:40 PM, Peter Jeremy wrote: > On 2010-Jul-17 01:24:57 +0800, Michael Johnson <mjjohnson....@yahoo.com> > wrote: >> I'm currently planning on running FreeBSD with ZFS, but I wanted to >> double-check >> how much memory I'd need for it to be stable. The ZFS wiki currently says >> you >> can go as low as 1 GB, but recommends 2 GB; however, elsewhere I've seen >> someone >> claim that you need at least 4 GB. Does anyone here know how much RAM >> FreeBSD >> would need in this case? > > I am running FreeBSD 8.x with ZFS on several systems. From my > experiences, 2GB is a bare minimum and it seems a lot happier with > 3.5GB. Note that in any case, patching ARC to work around the out- > of-free-memory bug is fairly important.
Do you have a CR for this bug? -- richard -- ZFS and performance consulting http://www.RichardElling.com _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
