Aha... On the other hand the compilation of this software is "tricky", it is like a memory black-hole... :) - see this thread here on Sun's forums: http://forums.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=5430275 (a short summary: with 8GB ram it swaps out 3-4GB, and this motherboard cannot handle more. Buying a new system is out of my budget at the moment...)
With OpenIndiana I see something that's promising: with SXCE (I still use 125) the memory is almost full, according to Gnome's system monitor, the system cache eats up a lot of ram (can't recall, but around ~50-60, maybe 70%) while under OI I get "7% used by programs, and 0% used by cache". I did not have the opportunity to compile in the last week, so the compiler's behavior is to be tested. Somehow I remembered (badly, very well might be...) that ZFS writes only to free space (until there is free space on the device), and only _then_ begins to overwrite previously used space, which would mean that all blocks would seem used after a while (from the perspective of the SSD itself). Thanks very much for the info! -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ storage-discuss mailing list storage-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/storage-discuss
