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Date:      Tue, 22 May 2007 11:17:37 +0200
From:      Kenneth Vestergaard Schmidt <kvs@pil.dk>
To:        Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Craig Boston <craig@xfoil.gank.org>, freebsd-fs@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, Darren Reed <darrenr@freebsd.org>, Vince <jhary@unsane.co.uk>
Subject:   Re: ZFS committed to the FreeBSD base.
Message-ID:  <m1myzxrzda.fsf@binarysolutions.dk>
In-Reply-To: <20070522090947.GA3005@garage.freebsd.pl> (Pawel Jakub Dawidek's message of "Tue\, 22 May 2007 11\:09\:47 %2B0200")
References:  <20070407191517.GN63916@garage.freebsd.pl> <20070407212413.GK8831@cicely12.cicely.de> <20070410003505.GA8189@nowhere> <20070410003837.GB8189@nowhere> <20070410011125.GB38535@xor.obsecurity.org> <20070410013034.GC8189@nowhere> <20070410014233.GD8189@nowhere> <4651BD6F.5050301@unsane.co.uk> <20070522083112.GA5136@hub.freebsd.org> <4652B15D.5060505@unsane.co.uk> <20070522090947.GA3005@garage.freebsd.pl>

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Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org> writes:
>> I may reinstall at a later date as this is still very much a box to play
>> with, but I gather there is no great gain from going 64 bit other than
>> not having to play with PAE if you've got lots or RAM.
>
> I expect there is a huge difference in performance between i386 and
> amd64. I'm currently setting up environment to compare ZFS on
> FreeBSD/i386, FreeBSD/amd64 and Solaris.

I've had precious little time to do more testing on our amd64-setup, but
it seems that vm.kmem.size_max is a 32-bit uint, so we can't really use
much RAM for ZFS.

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