hardware for home use large storage

[Dmitry Morozovsky]

On Mon, 15 Feb 2010, Artem Belevich wrote:

AB> It used to be that vm.kmem_size_max needed to be bumped to allow for
AB> larger vm.kmem_size. It's no longer needed on amd64. Not sure about
AB> i386.
AB> 
AB> vm.kmem_size still needs tuning, though. While vm.kmem_size_max is no
AB> longer a limit, there are other checks in place that result in default
AB> vm.kmem_size being a bit on the conservative side for ZFS.

it seems so at least: on a machine with 8G RAM kmem_size is set to 2G, from 
which 1.5G is allocated for arc_max.

I'll try to increase them to 4G / 3G and test whether machine is stable...

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Sincerely,
D.Marck                                     [DM5020, MCK-RIPE, DM3-RIPN]
[ FreeBSD committer:                                 marck at FreeBSD.org ]
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