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Date:      Tue, 22 May 2007 11:09:47 +0200
From:      Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Vince <jhary@unsane.co.uk>
Cc:        Darren Reed <darrenr@freebsd.org>, freebsd-fs@freebsd.org, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Craig Boston <craig@xfoil.gank.org>
Subject:   Re: ZFS committed to the FreeBSD base.
Message-ID:  <20070522090947.GA3005@garage.freebsd.pl>
In-Reply-To: <4652B15D.5060505@unsane.co.uk>
References:  <20070407191517.GN63916@garage.freebsd.pl> <20070407212413.GK8831@cicely12.cicely.de> <20070410003505.GA8189@nowhere> <20070410003837.GB8189@nowhere> <20070410011125.GB38535@xor.obsecurity.org> <20070410013034.GC8189@nowhere> <20070410014233.GD8189@nowhere> <4651BD6F.5050301@unsane.co.uk> <20070522083112.GA5136@hub.freebsd.org> <4652B15D.5060505@unsane.co.uk>

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On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 10:01:17AM +0100, Vince wrote:
> Darren Reed wrote:
> > On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 04:40:31PM +0100, Vince wrote:
> > ...
> >> I dont suppose that there are any other tunables people could suggest?=
 I
> >> got a shiny new(well old but new to me) dual opteron board and dual 250
> >> sata drives and though i'd try putting it in as my home server with
> >> everything but / on zfs since i've had my /usr/ports on my laptop as
> >> compressed zfs since very shortly after it was commited.
> >> 	After a few kmem_map: too small" panics I re-read this thread and put
> >> vm.kmem_size_max and vm.kmem_size up to 512M and vfs.zfs.arc_min
> >> vfs.zfs.arc_max down to 65 megs. This did get me past "portsnap extrac=
t"
> >> but a make buildworld still got me the same panic.  vmstat -z showed a
> >> steady growth. This is with a generic -CURRENT from friday. I'm happy =
to
> >> provide any useful information once I get home and reboot it.
> >=20
> > Are you running the opterons with a 32 or 64 bit kernel?
> >=20
> > I set vfs.zfs.arc_max to somewhere between 75% and 80% of vm.kmem_size_=
max.
> >=20
> I'm running i386 more because I had a i386 CD lying around to install
> from and wont be using more than 3Gigs of RAM, than through informed
> choice. It looks like  setting  kern.maxvnodes=3D50000 has solved it for =
now.
>=20
> (after almost a day of uptime including building world and adding the
> 2nd disk to the zfs mirror)
> [root@crab ~]# vmstat -m | grep sol
> solaris 188066 139903K       - 164899933
> 16,32,64,128,256,512,1024,2048,4096
>=20
> I may reinstall at a later date as this is still very much a box to play
> with, but I gather there is no great gain from going 64 bit other than
> not having to play with PAE if you've got lots or RAM.

I expect there is a huge difference in performance between i386 and
amd64. I'm currently setting up environment to compare ZFS on
FreeBSD/i386, FreeBSD/amd64 and Solaris.

--=20
Pawel Jakub Dawidek                       http://www.wheel.pl
pjd@FreeBSD.org                           http://www.FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD committer                         Am I Evil? Yes, I Am!

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