Converting sysinstalled FreeBSD into ZFS-only server.

Matthias Gamsjager mgamsjager at gmail.com
Tue Aug 10 09:36:00 UTC 2010


about point 2:

well most users who did had problems with random zfs crashes did fix
it by using 150%.
check the freebsd forum about this. sorry if I can't give any hard
foundations about this claim but it does help.



On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 10:22 PM, Andriy Bakay <andriy at irbisnet.com> wrote:
>
> 1. In your post you are using dedicated partition for swap. Did it provide
> any advantages versus swap on ZFS volume?
> 2. You are suggesting to set 'vm_kmem_size' value to 150% of RAM. What
> pros. and cons. against following formula:
>
> vm_kmem_size = RAM / 2
> vfs.zfs.arc_max = vm_kmem_size - 512M
>
> 3. Could you be more verbose about your ZFS layout, what major advantages
> it provide against for example the following:
> http://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/GPTZFSBoot. I found it very interesting
> but I need more info.
>
> Regards,
> Andriy
>
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