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Re:Ask HN: Can we talk about FreeBSD vs. Linux? by byuu on Saturday November 22, 2014 @02:51PM (#8646457)
And ZFS deduplication consumes an absolutely frightening amount of RAM: 5GB of RAM per 1TB of storage is recommended.
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Re:Ask HN: Can we talk about FreeBSD vs. Linux? by laumars on Saturday November 22, 2014 @03:04PM (#8646503)
Oh totally. ZFS gets a lot right but even ZFS can't make deduplication practical for all bar a few fringe cases.
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Re:Ask HN: Can we talk about FreeBSD vs. Linux? by badgersandjam on Saturday November 22, 2014 @03:12PM (#8646526)
That's not much. Our baseline config HP DL380s come with 64GiB RAM (!!)
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Re:Ask HN: Can we talk about FreeBSD vs. Linux? by KaiserPro on Saturday November 22, 2014 @05:41PM (#8646925)
File servers should really have Looooots of ram. after all its cheap cache (compared to a fusion io card) Our file servers have 384 gigs of ram. The next gen will probably have much more.
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