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Please stop talking about ZFS having excessive RAM requirements - that only applies if you turn on De-Duplication. ZFS will happily run on a box with 2GB of RAM
by abrookewood 5y ago
Please stop talking about ZFS having excessive RAM requirements - that only applies if you turn on De-Duplication. ZFS will happily run on a box with 2GB of RAM.
- eb0la 5y agoWow. Do you have any pointers to this information? You can get easily 2GB with a SBC for less than $60. The expensive part is the case, and power supply.
- ksec 5y agoYou can google it as there should be plenty of discussions. Even on HN using 1GB of memory for ZFS. [1] The two ZFS memory intensive feature is ARC ( Cache ) and De-Duplication. The 2nd thing is that you are not using the NAS / DAS frequently in this scenario. The memory only get you extra performance. The only reason why you want ZFS is file integrity. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11897571 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11897571
- Fire-Dragon-DoL 5y agoWhy on earth no one said this on the truenas forum. I have 96GB of ram on my home server