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Date:      Thu, 10 Oct 2013 16:34:02 -0400
From:      Morgan Jones <morgan@morganjones.org>
To:        freebsd-fs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: RAM and zfs and multiple disks
Message-ID:  <BF5D198B-F156-4F3D-872D-B9F6426BCEAF@morganjones.org>
In-Reply-To: <20131010170724.GA19751@potato.growveg.org>
References:  <20131010170724.GA19751@potato.growveg.org>

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I've FreeBSD with 8gb of ram and no swap for years.  I'm currently on =
9.0 64-bit.

I have 2 zfs pools:=20
one is a pair of 16gb thumb drives for /
the other is 4x2tb + 2x500gb mirror for 10 or so mount points

It runs with zero problems.  In FreeBSD 8.x I had to set the arc max to =
keep from memory starving other processes but 9.0 has been fine.  32-bit =
was a disaster--I couldn't keep it from crashing.

I'm not running dedup.

-morgan


On Oct 10, 2013, at 1:07 PM, John <freebsd-lists@potato.growveg.org> =
wrote:

> Hello list,
>=20
> I'd like to have zfs on my freebsd desktop. However,
> this motherboard can take 8GB RAM, max.=20
>=20
> I'd like to get 2 x4Tb drives. Realistically, do I
> need another motherboard? The primary reason to have ZFS
> is to guard against bitrot.
>=20
> thanks,
> --=20
> John
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