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Date:      Wed, 23 May 2007 12:11:52 +0200
From:      Ivan Voras <ivoras@fer.hr>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Cc:        freebsd-fs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ZFS committed to the FreeBSD base.
Message-ID:  <f31419$bd8$1@sea.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <20070523093231.GA29797@xor.obsecurity.org>
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Kris Kennaway wrote:

> i.e. plain ZFS wants to use 3/4 of the *physical* RAM in the system
> (or all but 1GB).  i.e. if you have 16GB in your system then zfs will
> try to use up to 15GB of it for caching leaving only 1GB for
> everything else (kernel + userland).
>=20
> I would actually be interested to know how Solaris gets away with
> this.  It sounds like there must be less of a distinction between
> memory allocated to the kernel and to userland, and the ability for
> memory to flow between these two with some form of backpressure when
> userland wants memory that is currently gobbled by up solaris ZFS.

Isn't it adequately explained with Sparc being a 64-bit platform?


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