On 2012-Feb-27 14:48:05 -0800, Freddie Cash <fjwc...@gmail.com> wrote: >You can get away with 2 GB of RAM, if you spend a lot of time manually >tuning things to prevent kmem exhaustion and prevent ZFS ARC from >starving the rest of the system (especially on the network side of >things).
I run a system with ZFS and 2GB RAM (though only 40GB disk) without any major tuning (AFAIR, I've only adjusted vfs.zfs.arc_max). That said, more RAM would be better. >Definitely go with a 64-bit install. Even with less than 4 GB of RAM, >you'll benefit from the large kmem size and better auto-tuning. I'd strongly recommend against running ZFS on i386 as anything other than an experiment. -- Peter Jeremy
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