> Following suggestions from Andre and Rich that this was > probably the ARC, I've implemented a 256Mb limit for my > system's ARC, per the Solaris Internals wiki: > > * http://www.solarisinternals.com/wiki/index.php/ZFS_Evil_Tuning_Guide#ARCSIZE > * set arc max to 256Mb > set zfs:zfs_arc_max=0x10000000 > > And my system now seems to be chugging along quite happily.
Is there something very special about your system that's incompatible with ZFS's default policy? I'm asking because the link above says that "ZFS is not designed to steal memory from applications" and yet your out-of-the-box experience was: > my system constantly swapping and > interactive response for my desktop is horrendous. -Artem _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
