From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 16 18:35:57 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D09E106566C for ; Mon, 16 Apr 2012 18:35:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from nk11p00mm-asmtp001.mac.com (nk11p00mm-asmtp001.mac.com [17.158.161.0]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FC158FC15 for ; Mon, 16 Apr 2012 18:35:57 +0000 (UTC) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII Received: from cswiger1.apple.com (unknown [17.209.4.71]) by nk11p00mm-asmtp001.mac.com (Oracle Communications Messaging Server 7u4-23.01(7.0.4.23.0) 64bit (built Aug 10 2011)) with ESMTPSA id <0M2L001EY26J4I70@nk11p00mm-asmtp001.mac.com> for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Mon, 16 Apr 2012 17:35:08 +0000 (GMT) X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=fsecure engine=2.50.10432:5.6.7498,1.0.260,0.0.0000 definitions=2012-04-16_04:2012-04-16, 2012-04-16, 1970-01-01 signatures=0 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=notspam policy=default score=0 spamscore=0 ipscore=0 suspectscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx scancount=1 engine=6.0.2-1012030000 definitions=main-1204160199 From: Chuck Swiger In-reply-to: <4F8C56D9.4040309@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2012 10:35:07 -0700 Message-id: <69489124-BF24-4565-AAF9-291EA07EC80A@mac.com> References: <4F8C4F89.7090205@gmail.com> <4F8C56D9.4040309@gmail.com> To: carlopmart X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1084) Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ZFS options for FreeBSD 8.3 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2012 18:35:57 -0000 On Apr 16, 2012, at 10:28 AM, carlopmart wrote: > Thanks Chuck. Yes, I know it is not hte best option. But I need to tunning this vm with ZFS. Um, why? > Almost, is the minimum RAM needed for ZFS according to http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/filesystems-zfs.html. Yeah-- note the bit about "system panics" under load due to the kernel running out of available memory. Regards, -- -Chuck