> On Mon, 15 Jan 2007, Dennis Clarke wrote: > >> This has probably been asked before but is there a kernel tunable that >> will restrict the high water mark for ZFS cache memory? This way I could >> just grant 50% of mamory and no more. That sort of thing. > > Hi Dennis, > > Yes - see: > > <URL:http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6505658> >
thank you .. I'll look at that from a perspective of curiosity. >> A more important question would be, what effect would this have on >> system >> performance and am I merely thwarting progress. Sort of like early owners >> of the automobile were forced to send someone walking in front of them >> with a light in order to ensure that the horses were not frightened. That >> sort of thing. > > The best (IMHO) answer is to try it on your system with your workload. > Bear in mind that the ZFS developers are adamant that there should be no > tunables and that the system should handle every situation automatically. > I think that the ZFS developers have been at this for what? Five years? I should really just defer to them on this and buy more RAM. :-) -- Dennis Clarke _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
