ZFS on backup fileserver - RAM usage
Miroslav Lachman
000.fbsd at quip.cz
Mon Oct 13 11:44:03 UTC 2008
I am planning to install new server for backups with 4x 1TB SATA II
drives in RAIDZ. There will be about 20 separated filesystems from one
zpool, few jails with ssh (scp/sftp), rsync and maybe FTP daemons, no
other services with huge RAM utilization. As FreeBSD 7.1(-BETA) amd64
still have some limits of kernel space memory, are there any benefits to
put more then 2GB or 3GB in this server? Will it be more stabel or
faster with for example 6GB of RAM? (I can buy it, RAM is really cheap
in these days, but will it have some sense or is it vaste?)
I am using this tuning on testing machine (with 2GB RAM):
vm.kmem_size="1024M"
vm.kmem_size_max="1024M"
vfs.zfs.prefetch_disable="1"
vfs.zfs.arc_min="16M"
vfs.zfs.arc_max="64M"
kern.maxvnodes="400000"
(recommendations from http://wiki.freebsd.org/ZFSTuningGuide)
Have somebody better results with another values?
Miroslav Lachman
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