From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 28 04:10:41 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C258106566B for ; Tue, 28 Feb 2012 04:10:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from emz@norma.perm.ru) Received: from elf.hq.norma.perm.ru (unknown [IPv6:2001:470:1f09:14c0::2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9EC48FC0A for ; Tue, 28 Feb 2012 04:10:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from bsdrookie.norma.com. ([IPv6:fd00::7fc]) by elf.hq.norma.perm.ru (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id q1S4AUwn002988 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Tue, 28 Feb 2012 09:10:30 +0500 (YEKT) (envelope-from emz@norma.perm.ru) Message-ID: <4F4C53B6.6060909@norma.perm.ru> Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2012 10:10:30 +0600 From: "Eugene M. Zheganin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:7.0) Gecko/20111001 Thunderbird/7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org References: <4F4B0F83.4090600@norma.perm.ru> <977febd5710ecac8cd9ea374ca0193f4.squirrel@109.169.62.232> In-Reply-To: <977febd5710ecac8cd9ea374ca0193f4.squirrel@109.169.62.232> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.7 (elf.hq.norma.perm.ru [IPv6:fd00::30a]); Tue, 28 Feb 2012 09:10:30 +0500 (YEKT) X-Spam-Status: No hits=-98.5 bayes=0.5 testhits RDNS_NONE=0.793, SPF_SOFTFAIL=0.665,TO_NO_BRKTS_NORDNS=0.001,USER_IN_WHITELIST=-100 autolearn=no version=3.3.2 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2 (2011-06-06) on elf.hq.norma.perm.ru Subject: Re: zfs, 1 gig of RAM and periodic weekly 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: Tue, 28 Feb 2012 04:10:41 -0000 Hi. On 28.02.2012 01:02, Nenhum_de_Nos wrote: > regardless of the pool size ? > > I was planning on making an atom board a file server for my home, and I have two options: soekris > net6501 2GB RAM and intel board powered by the 330 atom (says 2GB limited as well). My plans are > to use from 4 up to 8 disks, and they should be 2TB at least. > > As its for home use, some p2p software and mostly music listening and sometimes movie streaming. > > should 2GB be that bad, that I should drop it and use UFS instead ? > > I may run any version of FreeBSD on it, was planning on 9-STABLE or 9.1. > In the same time I have a couple of hosts successfully running zfs on 768 Megs and on 1 Gig of RAM. Both i386. And they aren't affected by the periodic weekly for some reason. And they are used only as fileservers. So when I see all these advices to add a gazillion gigabytes of RAM to use zfs - I don't see the connection. Eugene.