On 1/16/07, Robert Milkowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hello James,
Monday, January 15, 2007, 10:14:31 PM, you wrote:
JD> 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.
>>
JD> well it may move but it won't run, it may crawl and limp. I have a
JD> blade 1500 with 512MB of ram currently it plays swap everything around
JD> when changes from fileserver to an interactive task, it takes up to
JD> 30-45 seconds till i get the box to respond to a carridge return in a
JD> shell. The only hope of getting anywhere decent performance with a u10
JD> is to max out its memory.
IIRC Blade 1500 has ATA and there's still a bug in ata driver which
shows up especially when ZFS is used in such combination and basically
everything start to crawl...
i also have a dual ultra scsi board, with 3x 18GB scsi drives and its
slow as well... speed is fine, except for no ram left for userland
apps.
James
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Best regards,
Robert mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://milek.blogspot.com
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