From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 11 14:01:01 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E75E1065680 for ; Fri, 11 Mar 2011 14:01:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from alexander@leidinger.net) Received: from mail.ebusiness-leidinger.de (mail.ebusiness-leidinger.de [217.11.53.44]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F19E58FC26 for ; Fri, 11 Mar 2011 14:01:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from outgoing.leidinger.net (p5B15535C.dip.t-dialin.net [91.21.83.92]) by mail.ebusiness-leidinger.de (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 85A0C844015; Fri, 11 Mar 2011 15:00:54 +0100 (CET) Received: from webmail.leidinger.net (unknown [IPv6:fd73:10c7:2053:1::2:102]) by outgoing.leidinger.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7A9428FE; Fri, 11 Mar 2011 15:00:48 +0100 (CET) Received: (from www@localhost) by webmail.leidinger.net (8.14.4/8.13.8/Submit) id p2BE0R1X065995; Fri, 11 Mar 2011 15:00:27 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from Alexander@Leidinger.net) Received: from pslux.ec.europa.eu (pslux.ec.europa.eu [158.169.9.14]) by webmail.leidinger.net (Horde Framework) with HTTP; Fri, 11 Mar 2011 15:00:27 +0100 Message-ID: <20110311150027.153506yognqhzx18@webmail.leidinger.net> Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2011 15:00:27 +0100 From: Alexander Leidinger To: Chris Forgeron References: <201103081425.p28EPQtM002115@dungeon.home> <201103091241.p29CfUM1003302@dungeon.home> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; DelSp="Yes"; format="flowed" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Dynamic Internet Messaging Program (DIMP) H3 (1.1.4) X-EBL-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-EBL-MailScanner-ID: 85A0C844015.A43D8 X-EBL-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-EBL-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, spamhaus-ZEN, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=1.274, required 6, autolearn=disabled, RDNS_NONE 1.27) X-EBL-MailScanner-SpamScore: s X-EBL-MailScanner-From: alexander@leidinger.net X-EBL-MailScanner-Watermark: 1300456855.92446@aAroBSI0ru/Uf97RCdjijw X-EBL-Spam-Status: No Cc: "freebsd-fs@freebsd.org" , Stephen McKay Subject: RE: Constant minor ZFS corruption X-BeenThere: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Filesystems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2011 14:01:01 -0000 Quoting Chris Forgeron (from Thu, 10 Mar 2011 16:43:43 -0400): > Oh - and you're AMD64, correct, not i386? I think we (royal we) > should remove support for i385 in ZFS, it has never been stable for > me, and I see a lot of grief about it on the boards. I also think > you need 8 GB of RAM to play seriously. I've had reasonable success > with 4GB and a light load, but any serious file traffic needs 8GB of > breathing room as ZFS gobbles up the RAM in a very aggressive manner. Veto! I have two x86 machines, one with "only" 768 MB RAM. Both of them run with ZFS without problems. The scenario I use them in may not be the scenario you need to provide a machine for, but there are scenarios where ZFS on x86 works. Bye, Alexander. -- BOFH excuse #113: Root nameservers are out of sync http://www.Leidinger.net Alexander @ Leidinger.net: PGP ID = B0063FE7 http://www.FreeBSD.org netchild @ FreeBSD.org : PGP ID = 72077137