Shawn Walker wrote: > Jasse Jansson wrote: >> Vit Hrachovy wrote: >>> >>> 3. Dedicating 1GB RAM solely for ZFS is overkill. I want my RAM back >>> for my games, browser, OS, virtual machines.... I know I can >>> configure ZFS to eat less, but eating 1GB by default? >> >> At least make it well documented and easily adjusted. >> Maybe as an option in the installer, that would be neat especially for >> laptop installs. >> It's way to hidden right now. > > I think the better option is to make it smarter about determining the > size of the cache and the adjustment of it. >
That would work. An easily found setting about how fast is releases cashe memory would be nice. I have not done any specific testing, but it seems that releasing memory isn't high priority for zfs.
