On Apr 11, 2011, at 17:54, Brandon High wrote:
I suspect that the minimum memory for most moderately sized pools is
over 16GB. There has been a lot of discussion regarding how much
memory each dedup'd block requires, and I think it was about 250-270
bytes per block. 1TB of data (at max block
On 13/04/2011 00:36, David Magda wrote:
On Apr 11, 2011, at 17:54, Brandon High wrote:
I suspect that the minimum memory for most moderately sized pools is
over 16GB. There has been a lot of discussion regarding how much
memory each dedup'd block requires, and I think it was about 250-270
On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 10:01 PM, Matt Harrison
iwasinnamuk...@genestate.com wrote:
The machine only has 4G RAM I believe.
There's your problem. 4G is not enough memory for dedup, especially
without a fast L2ARC device.
It's time I should be heading to bed so I'll let it sit overnight, and if
On 11/04/2011 10:04, Brandon High wrote:
On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 10:01 PM, Matt Harrison
iwasinnamuk...@genestate.com wrote:
The machine only has 4G RAM I believe.
There's your problem. 4G is not enough memory for dedup, especially
without a fast L2ARC device.
It's time I should be heading
On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 10:55 AM, Matt Harrison
iwasinnamuk...@genestate.com wrote:
It did finish eventually, not sure how long it took in the end. Things are
looking good again :)
If you want to continue using dedup, you should invest in (a lot) more
memory. The amount of memory required
On 04/11/11 04:01 PM, Matt Harrison wrote:
I'm running a slightly old version of OSOL, I'm sorry I can't remember
the version.
I had a de-dup dataset and tried to destroy it. The command hung and
so did anything else zfs related. I waited half and hour or so, the
dataset was only 15G, and
On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 9:01 PM, Matt Harrison
iwasinnamuk...@genestate.com wrote:
I had a de-dup dataset and tried to destroy it. The command hung and so did
anything else zfs related. I waited half and hour or so, the dataset was
only 15G, and rebooted.
How much RAM does the system have?
On 11/04/2011 05:25, Brandon High wrote:
On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 9:01 PM, Matt Harrison
iwasinnamuk...@genestate.com wrote:
I had a de-dup dataset and tried to destroy it. The command hung and so did
anything else zfs related. I waited half and hour or so, the dataset was
only 15G, and
