> It might just be me, and the 'feel' of it, but it still feels to me that > the system needs to be under more memory pressure before ZFS gives pages > back. This could also be because I'm typically using systems with either > > 128GB, or <= 4GB of RAM, and in the smaller case, not having some > headroom costs me...
I can confirm this "feeling". I have several older systems which used to have UFS and now run using ZFS, and the effect is noticeable. I have never gotten around to doing any benchmarks, but as a rule of thumb any box under 2GB RAM is not really good for ZFS. Regards -- Volker -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Volker A. Brandt Consulting and Support for Sun Solaris Brandt & Brandt Computer GmbH WWW: http://www.bb-c.de/ Am Wiesenpfad 6, 53340 Meckenheim Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Handelsregister: Amtsgericht Bonn, HRB 10513 Schuhgröße: 45 Geschäftsführer: Rainer J. H. Brandt und Volker A. Brandt _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
