> On Jul 30, 2014, at 7:20 PM, Paul Mather <[email protected]> wrote: > > Despite all that FreeBSD ZFS love, I still would not recommend it on > FreeBSD/i386-based installations (as the OP said he was using). It is > much more of a headache to use in that milieu, and, IMHO, doesn't get > the testing and general care and feeding that the FreeBSD/amd64 version > gets.
Note that I said any use we make would be amd64 only. > Also, ZFS would not be a good fit on low-memory embedded hardware. > There are enough problems getting ARC to play nicely on high-memory > systems under memory pressure... :-) What do you consider ‘low-memory’? It’s getting difficult to put less than 4GB in some systems. ZFS works really well on a 4GB system with around 100GB of ssd/m-sata. auto-tuned ARC maximum is physical RAM less 1GB, or 1/2 of available RAM. on a 2GB system, this is 1GB, on a 4GB system, its 2GB. Have you looked at memory usage in pfSense lately? Most of the ‘tuning guides’ consider fileserver/webserver/db applications. pfSense is none of these. There are several applications that would like to reliably write logfiles / rrd files, etc., however. _______________________________________________ List mailing list [email protected] https://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list
