I guess I find it ridiculous you're complaining about ram when I can purchase 4gb for under 50 dollars on a desktop.
Its not like were talking about a 500 dollar purchase. On 6/16/08, Peter Tribble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 5:20 PM, dick hoogendijk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Mon, 16 Jun 2008 16:21:26 +0100 >> "Peter Tribble" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> The *real* common thread is that you need ridiculous amounts >>> of memory to get decent performance out of ZFS >> >> That's FUD. Older systems might not have enough memory, but newer ones >> can't hardly be bought with less then 2Gb. Read the specs before you >> write such nonsense about "ridiculous" memory amounts. > > Hogwash. What is the reasonable minimum? I'm suspecting it's well > over 2G. > > And as for being unable to get machines with less than 2G, just look at > Sun's price list - plenty of 1G, and the X2100, Ultra 20, and Ultra 24 all > come in 512M configurations. Yes, it's not very smart, but it doesn't > just set the target range now but for the working lifetime of the machines, > which is at least 3 years. > >>> bulk of the installed base of machines accessed by users is still >>> in the 512M-1G range >> >> True, buth those systems don't qualify for Vista nor for OpenSolaris, >> nor for a good ZFS based system. That's normal. Those machines are old. >> Not too old for ancient filesystems and lightweight desktops, but the >> -are- too old for modern software. > > So you're saying that if people want to even try OpenSolaris then they need > to throw away their perfectly functional hardware and buy something new? > Hardly a strategy for success. 1G is more than enough to run a modern > desktop (although heavier use and more apps will drive the requirement up > beyond that). > > (And it's not just a case of looking at the memory in the hardware - as > virtualization becomes more and more widely used that memory allocation > gets split up into smaller chunks that get allocated to virtual systems.) > > -- > -Peter Tribble > http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss > _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
