On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 04:40:13PM +1000, Craig Sanders wrote:
On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 04:38:22PM +1000, Craig Sanders wrote:
apparently it's also a good idea to reduce/limit the size of the ARC
http://www.solarisinternals.com/wiki/index.php/ZFS_Best_Practices_Guide#Memo...
also, this ARC memory usage thing is really pushing me towards building a separate workstation and turning this current machine into a dedicated server. i've been gradually working towards this for months, but i think i'm going to have to pick up the pace a bit(*) ARC is a memory hungry pig. Chromium browser is a memory hungry pig. and Iceweasel is too (but nowhere near as bad as Chromium). running all these and more on the same 8GB machine is mostly OK but there are occasionally annoying swap delays. especially annoying as I've got used to how fast and responsive my machine has become since i installed an SSD as the OS disk a few weeks ago. having swap on an SSD is nice too...but even swapping to an SSD results in noticable delays sometimes. (*) what a shame :) craig -- craig sanders <cas@taz.net.au> BOFH excuse #177: sticktion