Re: kern.geom.journal.stats.low_mem refers to what?

2011-03-30 Thread Luke Dean
I've recently set up gjournal on top of gmirror on FreeBSD 8.2. I understand that this setup has a lot of redundant writing. It is working, but I'm not sure I've set it up as efficiently as I should. During prolonged writes, such as copying large files to the file system across the

Re: kern.geom.journal.stats.low_mem refers to what?

2011-03-30 Thread Adam Vande More
On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 9:07 PM, Luke Dean lu...@pobox.com wrote: The Handbook says 1GB is good enough most of the time, but it also says that 3x the amount of physical memory is a good size as well. I compromised between the two and made an 8GB journal for this system that has ~4GB of

kern.geom.journal.stats.low_mem refers to what?

2011-03-27 Thread Luke Dean
I've recently set up gjournal on top of gmirror on FreeBSD 8.2. I understand that this setup has a lot of redundant writing. It is working, but I'm not sure I've set it up as efficiently as I should. During prolonged writes, such as copying large files to the file system across the