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Date:      Mon, 9 Jun 2008 22:50:28 +0200
From:      "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Anders_H=E4ggstr=F6m?=" <hagge.lists@intercorner.net>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD + ZFS on a production server?
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2008/6/9 Dick Hoogendijk <dick@nagual.nl>:
> On Mon, 9 Jun 2008 20:58:10 +0200
> "Anders H=E4ggstr=F6m" <hagge.lists@intercorner.net> wrote:
>
>> For the memory I've read that ZFS use up to approximately 700MB of ram
>> for caching, which is quite much, but not too much compared to my 4GB
>> that is available. However there doesn't seem to be an upper limit for
>> ZFS, which I think is very bad.
>
> This limit can be tuned. At least on solaris.
> Also, ZFS definitely prefers a 64 bit kernel.

That's good to know, thanks! Do you have any reference/link that
describes how to manage that? It's good to know for the future.

I always run my server on amd64-software, as far as I can, because I
see better performance and I do not have the trouble with 4GB memory
limit. Thanks for the info!

>
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