On Sun, 24 Oct 2010, besson3c wrote:
So, to paraphase this, if with these various I/O tests and tools it
is determined that disks are suffering from latency issues, adding
RAM or an L2ARC will help, and there is really no drawback of doing
one or the other as both will be used as available. So
So, to paraphase this, if with these various I/O tests and tools it is
determined that disks are suffering from latency issues, adding RAM or an L2ARC
will help, and there is really no drawback of doing one or the other as both
will be used as available. So, it's just a question of to what exten
The following is a good explanation:
http://blogs.sun.com/brendan/entry/test
-Moazam
On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 10:42 AM, besson3c wrote:
> Can somebody kindly clarify as to how Solaris and ZFS makes use of RAM?
>
> I have 4 gig of RAM installed on my Solaris/ZFS box serving a pool of 6
> disks.
Can somebody kindly clarify as to how Solaris and ZFS makes use of RAM?
I have 4 gig of RAM installed on my Solaris/ZFS box serving a pool of 6 disks.
I can see that it is using all of this memory, although the machine has never
had to dip into swap space.
What would be the net effect of adding
