From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 1 06:42:31 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E675106566B for ; Fri, 1 Jul 2011 06:42:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from stb@lassitu.de) Received: from gilb.zs64.net (gilb.zs64.net [IPv6:2001:470:1f0b:105e::1ea]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17BB88FC12 for ; Fri, 1 Jul 2011 06:42:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gilb.zs64.net (Postfix, from stb@lassitu.de) id 6E7EB59E78; Fri, 1 Jul 2011 08:42:29 +0200 (CEST) Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1084) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii From: Stefan Bethke In-Reply-To: <4E0D54AA.7000808@coreitpro.com> Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2011 08:42:28 +0200 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <1A9CA8A0-F477-4A6A-9363-8A357DAB7441@lassitu.de> References: <20110623163109.GA508@dragon.NUXI.org> <4E0B8CBC.8080601@gmail.com> <4E0CA5D4.4010002@coreitpro.com> <4E0D54AA.7000808@coreitpro.com> To: Sean M. Collins X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1084) Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Thoughts on TMPFS no longer being considered "highly experimental" X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2011 06:42:31 -0000 Am 01.07.2011 um 07:01 schrieb Sean M. Collins: > Ugh - bonnie++ creates a file that is twice the size of available > memory, and I have 16G of swap available. While ZFS already had most = of > the memory wired for ARC. I shouldn't be surprised that the box was > printing "swap zone exhausted" The box shouldn't wedge in this situation. If tmpfs can create a memory = starvation situation on the kernel level, it is not production ready. Stefan --=20 Stefan Bethke Fon +49 151 14070811