> Dennis Clarke wrote: >>> Martin Bochnig wrote: >>>> James C. McPherson wrote: > ... >>> 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. >> >> let's be more honest and say 4GB of RAM and dual 64-bit procs > > No, that's not necessary.
necessary ? no. Throw in ZFS and it may well be. >> I am beginning to think that ZFS is a feature of Vista because it >> seems to eat all available RAM endlessly. My snv_52 machine here has a >> zpool on it and a few ZFS filesystems. No one is logged in graphically, >> there is one user, me. I'm doing nothing. Look here : >> >> bash-3.1# vmstat 5 >> kthr memory page disk faults cpu >> r b w swap free re mf pi po fr de sr f0 m5 m6 m7 in sy cs us >> sy id >> 0 0 0 1109032 161304 1 5 8 4 4 0 10 -0 0 0 0 539 145 152 0 >> 3 97 >> 0 0 0 920696 23352 1 5 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 738 77 523 0 >> 5 95 >> 0 0 0 920680 23312 1 3 13 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 510 69 116 0 >> 1 99 >> ^C > > I would have thought you'd realise that showing a mere 15 seconds > worth of vmstat output -- with a 5 second granularity -- is pretty > useless to illustrate your point. right .. would you like a plot of data collected over a 24 hour period with 5 sec samples? They will all show free memory in the basement. dc _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
