From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 29 21:40:07 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8DF1E1065670 for ; Wed, 29 Jun 2011 21:40:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dick@nagual.nl) Received: from smtpq3.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net (smtpq3.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net [212.54.42.166]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41A0E8FC14 for ; Wed, 29 Jun 2011 21:40:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [212.54.42.136] (helo=smtp5.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net) by smtpq3.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qc2UP-00027L-U9 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 29 Jun 2011 23:40:05 +0200 Received: from 524944af.cm-4-2b.dynamic.ziggo.nl ([82.73.68.175] helo=mail.nagual.nl) by smtp5.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Qc2UP-0007zw-0H for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 29 Jun 2011 23:40:05 +0200 Received: from [192.168.11.111] (82.73.68.175) by westmark (Axigen) with (CAMELLIA256-SHA encrypted) ESMTPSA id 1A2B3D; Wed, 29 Jun 2011 23:43:29 +0200 Message-ID: <4E0B9C39.9000806@nagual.nl> Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2011 23:42:17 +0200 From: Dick Hoogendijk User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:5.0) Gecko/20110624 Thunderbird/5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AxigenSpam-Level: 7 X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-ID: 1Qc2UP-0007zw-0H X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-SpamCheck: geen spam, SpamAssassin (niet cached, score=-4.34, vereist 5, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -1.00, BAYES_00 -1.90, CM_META_TB_NOARR 0.50, DOS_RCVD_IP_TWICE_B 0.00, PROLO_TRUST_RDNS -3.00, RDNS_DYNAMIC 0.98, TW_ZF 0.08) X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-From: dick@nagual.nl X-Spam-Status: No Subject: zfs tuning X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2011 21:40:07 -0000 I would welcome some advise on zfs tuning. Coming from solaris I need this info. The system only has 2MB of ram. No problems running solaris11 in it so far so FreeBSD should do just fine too, but who can suggest some settings for: vm.kmem_size vm.kmem_size_max vfs.zfs.arc_max vfs.zfs.vdev.cache.size Mind you, it's for a 2MB FreeBSD-8.2 system; no X; serving mail, web, dns