From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 21 18:47:10 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79B10106566B for ; Sat, 21 May 2011 18:47:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from DStaal@usa.net) Received: from mail.magehandbook.com (173-8-4-45-WashingtonDC.hfc.comcastbusiness.net [173.8.4.45]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 150138FC14 for ; Sat, 21 May 2011 18:47:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.50] (Mac-Pro.magehandbook.com [192.168.1.50]) by mail.magehandbook.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id AEDF59D8; Sat, 21 May 2011 14:47:06 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 21 May 2011 14:47:06 -0400 From: Daniel Staal To: "Vladislav V. Prodan" , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <996998E6F01EF262AEE4C8A5@mac-pro.magehandbook.com> In-Reply-To: <4DD8066B.2020307@ukr.net> References: <4DD638C1.7080007@ukr.net> <4DD8066B.2020307@ukr.net> X-Mailer: Mulberry/4.0.8 (Mac OS X) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Cc: Subject: Re: Tell a minimum requirement for RAM for virtual machines (virtualbox) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: FreeBSD Questions List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 21 May 2011 18:47:10 -0000 --As of May 21, 2011 9:37:31 PM +0300, Vladislav V. Prodan is alleged to have said: > Thanks for the recommendation, but I have all the workers of the amd64 > and tests in the i386, with its restrictions did not see the point. > Now start the virtual machine to 150MB RAM, FreeBSD 8.2-CURRENT amd64 on > ZFS. --As for the rest, it is mine. That is quite certainly too little RAM for that setup. Lowest I've heard anyone get to with ZFS is half a GB, and it's not considered 'stable' with less than a full GB. (And from my experience I'd say you'll want more than that.) With another file system, maybe. But ZFS needs RAM. Daniel T. Staal --------------------------------------------------------------- This email copyright the author. Unless otherwise noted, you are expressly allowed to retransmit, quote, or otherwise use the contents for non-commercial purposes. This copyright will expire 5 years after the author's death, or in 30 years, whichever is longer, unless such a period is in excess of local copyright law. ---------------------------------------------------------------