You can hardly have too much. At least 8 GB, maybe 16 would be good. The benefit will depend on your workload, but zfs and buffer cache will use it all if you have a big enough read working set.
-- Garrett Joe Auty <j...@netmusician.org> wrote: >I'm also noticing that I'm a little short on RAM. I have 6 320 gig >drives and 4 gig of RAM. If the formula is POOL_SIZE/250, this would >mean that I need at least 6.4 gig of RAM. > >What role does RAM play with queuing and caching and other things which >might impact overall disk performance? How much more RAM should I get? > > >_______________________________________________ >zfs-discuss mailing list >zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org >http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss > _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
