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On 2 Mar 2011, at 12:16, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
>> 
>> I guess I should have been a bit clearer, I mean without any external
>> devices backing them. Seeing as this is to be running on a VPS/Xen at
>> a hosting environment I'm not able to add any additional devices. I'm
>> not memory starved however. Is it madness to use a memory disk? (The
>> instance in question will have 6gb of ram total to play with.).
> 
> Again: don't disable the ZIL, and adjust the ARC to whatever size you
> want using a combo of vm.kmem_size and vfs.zfs.arc_max.  Make use of the
> RAM you have available to you.  :-)

Good good :).

Thanks,
Joe