Re: Re[2]: [zfs-discuss] Limit ZFS Memory Utilization

2007-01-10 Thread Jason J. W. Williams
Hi Robert, Thank you! Holy mackerel! That's a lot of memory. With that type of a calculation my 4GB arc_max setting is still in the danger zone on a Thumper. I wonder if any of the ZFS developers could shed some light on the calculation? That kind of memory loss makes ZFS almost unusable for a d

Re[2]: [zfs-discuss] Limit ZFS Memory Utilization

2007-01-10 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello Jason, Wednesday, January 10, 2007, 9:45:05 PM, you wrote: JJWW> Sanjeev & Robert, JJWW> Thanks guys. We put that in place last night and it seems to be doing JJWW> a lot better job of consuming less RAM. We set it to 4GB and each of JJWW> our 2 MySQL instances on the box to a max of 4GB.

Re[2]: [zfs-discuss] Limit ZFS Memory Utilization

2007-01-10 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello Jason, Tuesday, January 9, 2007, 10:28:12 PM, you wrote: JJWW> Hi Sanjeev, JJWW> Thank you! I was not able to find anything as useful on the subject as JJWW> that! We are running build 54 on an X4500, would I be correct in my JJWW> reading of that article that if I put "set zfs:zfs_arc_ma