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Date:      Thu, 9 May 2013 21:14:48 -0500
From:      Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com>
To:        Jeremy Chadwick <jdc@koitsu.org>
Cc:        Benjamin Adams <benjamindadams@gmail.com>, "freebsd-stable@freebsd.org" <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>, Shane Ambler <FreeBSD@shaneware.biz>
Subject:   Re: recommended memory for zfs
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On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 9:06 PM, Jeremy Chadwick <jdc@koitsu.org> wrote:

> The advice of "1GB of RAM per 1TB of disk space" is absolute nonsense on
> numerous levels -- whoever gave this advice to Shane either has no
> understanding of how filesystems/ZFS works, or does but chose to
> simplify to the point where they're providing half-ass information.

IIRC, that used to be the guideline for memory requirements for dedup.



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Adam Vande More



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