> On 1/15/07, Martin Bochnig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> James C. McPherson wrote:
>>
>> > Despite the years of experience with ZFS and how it uses kmem...
>> >
>> >
>> > IMNSHO the bottom line is this - if you want to have a fair
>> > crack at seeing what ZFS can do for you, you need a 64bit
>> > processor and 1Gb of ram.
>> >
>>
>> The OP's question had been, whether or not "Solaris 10 with ZFS" runs
>> __at all__ on his U10 with only 128MB RAM.
>>
> well it may move but it won't run, it may crawl and limp. I have a
> blade 1500 with 512MB of ram currently it plays swap everything around
> when changes from fileserver to an interactive task, it takes up to
> 30-45 seconds till i get the box to respond to a carridge return in a
> shell. The only hope of getting anywhere decent performance with a u10
> is to max out its memory.
>
oh paaleeez ...
I'm working on my 512MB old 400MHz box right now with 8 desktops and
Mozilla and xterms all over the place and its running fine .
bash-3.1$ uname -a
SunOS titan 5.10 Generic_118855-19 i86pc i386 i86pc
bash-3.1$ psrinfo -v
Status of virtual processor 0 as of: 01/15/2007 16:33:48
on-line since 12/27/2006 22:31:21.
The i386 processor operates at 400 MHz,
and has an i387 compatible floating point processor.
Status of virtual processor 1 as of: 01/15/2007 16:33:48
on-line since 12/27/2006 22:31:27.
The i386 processor operates at 400 MHz,
and has an i387 compatible floating point processor.
bash-3.1$ prtconf -v | grep Memory
Memory size: 512 Megabytes
bash-3.1$ vmstat 5
kthr memory page disk faults cpu
r b w swap free re mf pi po fr de sr s1 s2 s3 s3 in sy cs us sy id
0 0 0 641032 170668 3 6 7 3 2 0 0 1 0 0 0 602 300 344 2 1 96
0 0 0 359268 82176 1 10 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 492 202 261 1 1 98
0 0 0 359268 82176 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 512 201 264 0 1 99
^C
bash-3.1$
bash-3.1$
but ZFS would kill it ..
Dennis
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