Date: Sat, 2 Oct 2010 10:52:21 -0500 From: Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com> To: Anselm Strauss <amsibamsi@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Swap on ZFS Message-ID: <AANLkTinenEtDdOwcw02spezfQeagTMYJuU9zpcPDTKiQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4CA6FBC2.8080908@gmail.com> References: <4CA6FBC2.8080908@gmail.com>
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On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 4:30 AM, Anselm Strauss <amsibamsi@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi > > I have a virtual server with only 512 MB of memory but still want to run > ZFS on it. > <snip> > Has there been any fix or workaround for this? I guess it does not help > when I use a swap file on ZFS instead of a separate zvol. > Make sure you are following this: http://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/GPTZFSBoot Please note swap is not a ZVOL, it is a sepate partition. You'd have the same problem with ZVOL. Also use i386, that will save you a bit of memory. Follow the ZFS tuning guide. Even if you follow all those things, I'm not sure you'll be able to get it stable. 512MB is really tight. -- Adam Vande More
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