From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 23 10:14:28 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0A4916A400 for ; Wed, 23 May 2007 10:14:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-current@m.gmane.org) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2828D13C455 for ; Wed, 23 May 2007 10:14:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-current@m.gmane.org) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1Hqnpz-000601-Ko for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Wed, 23 May 2007 12:13:00 +0200 Received: from lara.cc.fer.hr ([161.53.72.113]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 23 May 2007 12:12:59 +0200 Received: from ivoras by lara.cc.fer.hr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 23 May 2007 12:12:59 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org From: Ivan Voras Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 12:11:52 +0200 Lines: 36 Message-ID: References: <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> <20070523085532.GA27542@hub.freebsd.org> <20070523093231.GA29797@xor.obsecurity.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig053AB28F72BD0A1543C789D7" X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: lara.cc.fer.hr User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (X11/20060911) In-Reply-To: <20070523093231.GA29797@xor.obsecurity.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.2.0 Sender: news Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ZFS committed to the FreeBSD base. X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 10:14:28 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig053AB28F72BD0A1543C789D7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Kris Kennaway wrote: > i.e. plain ZFS wants to use 3/4 of the *physical* RAM in the system > (or all but 1GB). i.e. if you have 16GB in your system then zfs will > try to use up to 15GB of it for caching leaving only 1GB for > everything else (kernel + userland). >=20 > I would actually be interested to know how Solaris gets away with > this. It sounds like there must be less of a distinction between > memory allocated to the kernel and to userland, and the ability for > memory to flow between these two with some form of backpressure when > userland wants memory that is currently gobbled by up solaris ZFS. Isn't it adequately explained with Sparc being a 64-bit platform? --------------enig053AB28F72BD0A1543C789D7 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGVBNpldnAQVacBcgRAjxNAKDKndBee37V9m0tGQZW159PJbMnYwCgjEPY ofLCrMGGY+D2+/jhVlKxdL0= =3JMY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig053AB28F72BD0A1543C789D7--