On Tuesday 17 April 2007 12:43:13 Gary Jennejohn wrote: > > Robert Watson writes: > > Interestingly enough, I see less memory pressure since switching to ZFS. > But I'm not using RAIDZ. Previously ``make buildworld'' would use much > more memory, probably for buffer caching. It looks like ZFS doesn't use > nearly as much buffer cache as UFS (which may not be a good thing). > On this system 4GB system - 2,3GB available - ZFS stops around 1,3GB Free whereas UFS continues until app. 700MB mark on a buildworld But the price seems to be much more disk activity - Given that the difference - after disabling Witness - was UFS 10m32.10s real 27m1.32s user 7m49.01s sys (Systat 700MB Free) ZFS 17m43.66s real 27m30.70s user 17m28.47s sys (Systat 1,3GB Free) It make me think that ZFS is trading memory for performance - my guess is - that given the same memory usage ZFS would be unbeatable - I must say that Pawel has done a great job porting ZFS > --- > Gary Jennejohn / garyjATjennejohnDOTorg gjATfreebsdDOTorg garyjATdenxDOTde > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current_at_freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe_at_freebsd.org" >Received on Tue Apr 17 2007 - 18:37:13 UTC
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