I Finally Found a Solid Debian Tablet: The Surface Go 2

Re:I Finally Found a Solid Debian Tablet: The Surface Go 2 by benlivengood on Saturday June 25, 2022 @12:55PM (#31876798)

Have you noticed a big problem with ZFS on 8GB of RAM? I've successfully ran fairly large (2TB, thousands of snapshots) zpools out of 4GB of RAM, with dedup off of course.

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Re:I Finally Found a Solid Debian Tablet: The Surface Go 2 by mmh0000 on Monday June 27, 2022 @12:18PM (#31896736)

Since ZFS is the greatest filesystem in the world, I use ZFS -everywhere-. Including, on my very old Lenovo Yoga 2 Pro (2013) with a slow dual core, and only 8GB of ram. ZFS works great, on that device I need to manually limit the ARC size so that it doesn't eat all my ram:

  # cat /etc/modprobe.d/tiny-modprobe.d-zfs.conf
  options zfs zfs_arc_max=2147483648

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Re:I Finally Found a Solid Debian Tablet: The Surface Go 2 by linmob on Saturday June 25, 2022 @01:06PM (#31876881)

I don't use ZFS, so I can’t comment. Maybe the blogs author just wants to use that RAM for the web browser :-)

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