[geeks] bah.

Jonathan C. Patschke jp at celestrion.net
Fri Mar 13 14:49:03 CDT 2009


On Fri, 13 Mar 2009, Phil Stracchino wrote:

>> [...] the things that make ZFS panic are unrelated and largely
>> controllable.  ZFS panics are almost always due to running out of
>> non-pageable physical memory, which you can corral by limiting the
>> amount of memory ZFS can gobble up.
>
> The machine has 4GB of RAM, and can hold up to 16GB (DDR333), so I'd
> hope that wouldn't be too terrible an issue.

It depends on how much I/O you have and how slow your storage is.  You
still want to tune things.  The tuning parameters are reasonably
well-documented and are easy to set.

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