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Re:FreeNAS by gempir on Friday January 10, 2020 @01:57AM (#22008897)
Yeah 8GB seems excessive. My Synology has 2GB of RAM and does just fine. I run multiple docker containers on it aswell.
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Re:FreeNAS by hestefisk on Friday January 10, 2020 @01:59AM (#22008908)
That’s likely because Synology doesn’t offer ZFS or anything near the same capabilities.
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Re:FreeNAS by black3r on Friday January 10, 2020 @02:29AM (#22009062)
synology uses btrfs which provides almost the same capabilities, but ZFS usually eats all the RAM it gets as some sort of cache to speed up disk operations.
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Re:FreeNAS by hestefisk on Friday January 10, 2020 @02:36AM (#22009118)
You are thinking of the ARC. By default, ZFS will allocate what is available but you can constrain it as you like.
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