[mythtv-users] MythBuntu 11.10 on ESXi

[Jim Oltman]

On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 4:41 PM, Raymond Wagner <raymond at wagnerrp.com>wrote:

> On 8/13/2012 17:03, Jim Oltman wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 3:51 PM, Raymond Wagner <raymond at wagnerrp.com
>> <mailto:raymond at wagnerrp.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     On 8/13/2012 11:44, Jim Oltman wrote:
>>
>>         Still, I really want to use more RAM.  FreeNAS can use quite a
>> bit.
>>
>>
>>     FreeNAS will use all of the memory.  ZFS will eat up everything you
>>     have, and then start swapping idle stuff out because it wants more.
>>
>>
>> Yup.  I have 6GB allocated right now.  That's why i need at least
>> another 24GB (Subsonic can eat a lot as well).
>>
>
> On ZFS, it's merely their version of the disk cache, predicatively reading
> information it thinks you might need. If an application actively wants to
> use that memory, it will release it for use. That seems like all the more
> reason to put them all on one logical system, to allow for more intelligent
> allocation of memory, and prevent the duplication of disk cache between the
> two virtual servers.


Again, can't do that cuz of Windows.
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