Re: new ZFS sysctls not working?

From: Ivan Voras <ivoras_at_fer.hr> Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 10:31:38 +0200 · This archive was generated by hypermail 2.4.0 : Wed May 19 2021 - 11:39:08 UTC

> On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 10:07:12PM -0500, Doug Poland wrote:

>>>> # sysctl -a | grep vm.kmem_size
>>>> vm.kmem_size: 80662528
>>>> vm.kmem_size_max: 335544320
>>>> vm.kmem_size_scale: 3

 From Pawel's recent commit message:

   From ZFS administration guide:

   "Currently the minimum amount of memory recommended to install a Solaris
    system is 512 Mbytes. However, for good ZFS performance, at least one
    Gbyte or more of memory is recommended."

ZFS is memory hungry.