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Date:      Fri, 24 Jul 2015 00:49:39 +0000
From:      Glen Barber <gjb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com>
Cc:        Brandon Allbery <allbery.b@gmail.com>, Michelle Sullivan <michelle@sorbs.net>, freebsd-stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>, Jason Unovitch <jason.unovitch@gmail.com>, herbert@oslo.ath.cx
Subject:   Re: 10.2-Beta i386..what's wrong..?
Message-ID:  <20150724004939.GN84931@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20150724004443.GC1370@lonesome.com>
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On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 07:44:43PM -0500, Mark Linimon wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 12:43:43AM +0000, Glen Barber wrote:
> > Even on amd64, you need to tune the system with less than 4GB RAM.
>=20
> The only correct answer to "how much RAM do you need to run ZFS" is
> "always more" AFAICT.
>=20

There's a bit more to it than that.  You *can* successfully run amd64
ZFS system with certain tunings (vfs.kmem_max IIRC), but you also need
to adjust things like disabling prefetching with less than 4GB RAM
(accessible to the OS).

So yeah, "more RAM" is always a thing in this playing field.

Glen


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