Re[2]: [zfs-discuss] RAM size tuning for ZFS file servers...

2006-05-14 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello Erik, Friday, May 12, 2006, 10:34:58 PM, you wrote: ET So, I'll be using this: ET 3 x Sun 3511FC SATA JBODs, each with 12 400GB disks. The setup is a ET 11-wide stripe of 3-disk RAIDZ vdevs, with the remain 3 drives as ET hot-spares. They'll attach to x4200 Opterons or V440 Sparcs as

[zfs-discuss] RAM size tuning for ZFS file servers...

2006-05-12 Thread Erik Trimble
I'm looking at using ZFS as our main file server FS over here. I can do the disk layout tuning myself, but what I'm more interested in is getting thoughts on the amount of RAM that might help performance on these machines. Assume I've got more than enough network and disk bandwidth, and the