From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 28 04:26:22 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 C19541065675 for ; Tue, 28 Feb 2012 04:26:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from matheus@eternamente.info) Received: from phoenix.eternamente.info (phoenix.eternamente.info [109.169.62.232]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 970838FC23 for ; Tue, 28 Feb 2012 04:26:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: by phoenix.eternamente.info (Postfix, from userid 80) id 07DD21CC71; Tue, 28 Feb 2012 01:26:20 -0300 (BRT) Received: from 177.99.66.86 (SquirrelMail authenticated user matheus) by eternamente.info with HTTP; Tue, 28 Feb 2012 01:26:20 -0300 Message-ID: <38504ab18af5ef1502c8cccba656c72c.squirrel@eternamente.info> Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2012 01:26:20 -0300 From: "Nenhum_de_Nos" To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.21 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal 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 04:26:22 -0000 On Tue, February 28, 2012 01:10, Eugene M. Zheganin wrote: > 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, what's the pool size ? I'd like to use one using 4x 2TB disks (may be 3TB). and other using random disks that may evolve to that same amount. matheus -- We will call you Cygnus, The God of balance you shall be A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style