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Subject: Re: FreeBSD + ZFS on a production server?
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On Mon, 9 Jun 2008 20:58:10 +0200
"Anders H=C3=A4ggstr=C3=B6m" <hagge.lists@intercorner.net> wrote:

> For the memory I've read that ZFS use up to approximately 700MB of ram
> for caching, which is quite much, but not too much compared to my 4GB
> that is available. However there doesn't seem to be an upper limit for
> ZFS, which I think is very bad.

This limit can be tuned. At least on solaris.
Also, ZFS definitely prefers a 64 bit kernel.

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