[OpenAFS] ZFS-on-Linux on production fileservers?

Dan Van Der Ster daniel.vanderster@cern.ch
Fri, 4 Oct 2013 14:37:13 +0000


On Oct 4, 2013, at 4:31 PM, Jeff Blaine <jblaine@kickflop.net>
 wrote:

> * If not, and you looked into it, what stopped you?

We stopped because of the memory fragmentation issue. ZFS will use ~twice t=
he arc limit you set, and (in my experience) if you don't set the it wisely=
 (e.g. 20-25% total memory), your server will lock up solid.

Cheers, Dan
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