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Date:      Sun, 8 Jun 2008 22:55:46 +0200
From:      Dick Hoogendijk <dick@nagual.nl>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD + ZFS on a production server?
Message-ID:  <20080608225546.00002a20@westmark>
In-Reply-To: <20080608220836.T9779@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
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On Sun, 8 Jun 2008 22:08:59 +0200 (CEST)
Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> wrote:

> > As you might have read, I have quite a lot of RAM available on this
> > server (4GB), but ofcource I want the operating system to take as
> > little as possible so that I have as much RAM as possible over for
> > the server processes to work with (mostly web-server and
> > mysql-server).
> 
> ZFS is memory and CPU eater. prepare that very few will be left for
> actual work ;)

Bollocks.
It consumes memory. The more seperate filesystems, the more memory. But
don't execurate. For a webserver on zfs 4GB is more than enough.

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