Re: zfs pool behavior - is it ever freed?

[Brett Lymn <blymn%internode.on.net@localhost>]

On Thu, Jul 27, 2023 at 06:43:45AM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote:
> 
>   Our howto should say:
> 
>     32G is pretty clearly enough.  Nobody thinks there will be trouble.
>     16G is highly likely enough; we have no reports of trouble.
>     8G will probably work but ill advised for production use.
>     4G will not work; we have no reports of succesful long-term operation
> 
>     When you run out, it's ugly.  External tickle after sync(8) works to
>     reboot.  Other wdog approaches unclear.
> 
> 
> Additional data welcome of course.

 From my experience with ZFS on Solaris, these numbers are not unique to
NetBSD.  ZFS is a notorious memory pig regardless of the OS :)

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