Hello everyone,
I recently installed more RAM in my computer; increased it from 4GB to
8GB. Mainly to be able to use a larger arc for zfs. Now my question is,
how much memory does the kernel need apart from the arc? I currently
have kmem_size_max 512MB bigger than arc_max. I haven't run into any
problems so far. I use my computer as desktop only, running WindowMaker
and normally having xconsole, emiclock, firefox with 5+ tabs,
thunderbird, amsn, sunbird, thunar, ktorrent and upto 5 or 6 xterms.
My loader.conf looks like this:
vfs.root.mountfrom="zfs:sysroot"
vm.kmem_size_max=5G
vm.kmem_size=5G
vfs.zfs.arc_max=4608M
vm.pmap.pg_ps_enabled=1
zfs_load="YES"
nvidia_load="YES"
I am considering increasing kmem_size, kmem_size_max and arc_max by
1024MB each. The idea behind that, is that when I had 4GB RAM I had
kmem_size and kmen_size_max set to 2GB and never had any trouble with
user memory running out, so I believe 2GB user memory should still be
enough. Please correct me if I'm wrong. ;)
Anyway, the main question is, should 512MB difference between kmem and
arc be enough, or should I increase it? Or could I even decrease it?
I've had very noticably increased performance with larger arc size, so I
would like to set it as high as possible without causing problems for or
degradation of other kernel tasks and/or user applications.
Please let me know if you need any further information about my system.
Cheers,
Rolf Nielsen
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