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From: Dick Hoogendijk <dick@nagual.nl>
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD + ZFS on a production server?
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On Sun, 8 Jun 2008 22:08:59 +0200 (CEST)
Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> wrote:

> > As you might have read, I have quite a lot of RAM available on this
> > server (4GB), but ofcource I want the operating system to take as
> > little as possible so that I have as much RAM as possible over for
> > the server processes to work with (mostly web-server and
> > mysql-server).
> 
> ZFS is memory and CPU eater. prepare that very few will be left for
> actual work ;)

Bollocks.
It consumes memory. The more seperate filesystems, the more memory. But
don't execurate. For a webserver on zfs 4GB is more than enough.

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