On Sat, 20 Aug 2011 11:38:27 -0700
Yuri wrote:
> Someone told me that ZFS is a memory hog and it should be avoided as
> such. Is this true?
I wonder if this might be a mix-up between virtual and physical
memory. It's use of address space can be prohibitive on i386.
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On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 1:38 PM, Yuri wrote:
> Someone told me that ZFS is a memory hog and it should be avoided as such.
> Is this true?
>
A rather ridiculous statement you were told and full of ignorance in my
opinion. The 1908 Ford Model T got 25 MPG and my 2006 Mazda Speed6 gets
about 21 on
On 08/20/2011 11:45, Gary Gatten wrote:
Zfs isn't a typical daemon/process. That's like saying databased is a memory
hog cause it needs a lot of ram for caching.
I know it's a kernel module.
Zfs ram requirements will depend on your file system i/o load, types/sizes of
files, types and rate
ed 4GB for optimum performance.
- Original Message -
From: Yuri [mailto:y...@rawbw.com]
Sent: Saturday, August 20, 2011 01:38 PM
To: FreeBSD Questions
Subject: How much memory does ZFS use?
Someone told me that ZFS is a memory hog and it should be avoided as such.
Is this true?
How can I
Someone told me that ZFS is a memory hog and it should be avoided as such.
Is this true?
How can I understand how much memory particular kernel module consumes?
In Solaris there is mdb for that, what is an equivalent in FreeBSD?
Yuri
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