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Date:      Tue, 17 Apr 2007 09:58:45 +0200
From:      Gary Jennejohn <garyj@jennejohn.org>
To:        Thomas Sparrevohn <Thomas.Sparrevohn@btinternet.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Some comments on ZFS 
Message-ID:  <200704170758.l3H7wjUQ002114@peedub.jennejohn.org>
In-Reply-To: Message from Thomas Sparrevohn <Thomas.Sparrevohn@btinternet.com> of "Mon, 16 Apr 2007 20:21:51 BST." <200704162021.51678.Thomas.Sparrevohn@btinternet.com> 

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Thomas Sparrevohn writes:
> On Monday 16 April 2007 20:05:55 Joerg t wrote:
> 
> >
> > I'm also seeing a very odd behavior  regarding  memory consumption,
> > with src and obj under zfs (different filesystems, same pool, compression
> > off) the system begin to wire all memory and swap tops 1GB. Maybe there's
> > something trashing memory on zfs ?
> >
> 
> There is something weird - Just ran same test again to see whether it
> was a fluke - it still take 1h12 - however I saw the oppersite of Joerg.
> The "systat -vm" Freemem was permently on 2,2GB - this on a 4GB
> system that normally shows a 1,2GB - or less after a buildworld.
> 
> hmm. Pawel are there tests that can help? 
> 

After switching from SCHED_ULE to SCHED_4BSD my ``make -j2 buildworld''
completes in about 19 minutes. This is pretty much the same as before the
switch to ZFS.

I have lots of stuff turned off in make.conf so YMMV.

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Gary Jennejohn / garyjATjennejohnDOTorg gjATfreebsdDOTorg garyjATdenxDOTde




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