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Date:      Mon, 4 Mar 2024 09:17:09 -0500 (EST)
From:      Daniel Feenberg <feenberg@nber.org>
To:        Andrea Venturoli <ml@netfence.it>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ZFS ARC memory requirements
Message-ID:  <83a5e3e2-a211-c524-1c8f-700802d148f@nber.org>
In-Reply-To: <7f7a9f1f-8a2b-41ef-a6a7-1dc1e2f160af@netfence.it>
References:  <7f7a9f1f-8a2b-41ef-a6a7-1dc1e2f160af@netfence.it>

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On Mon, 4 Mar 2024, Andrea Venturoli wrote:

>
> I read the rule of thumbs for RAM is 1GB per TB of storage, which would 
> possibly mean 192GiB!!!, but I also read this is argued upon.

We have a number of large ZFS stores used for both production and backup. 
Most have 64GB and that seems more than enough. We use compression, but do 
not do de-duplication. I believe the advice you have read accounts for 
de-duplication, which is memory-intensive.

Daniel Feenberg



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