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I gave the AMD64 version of 7.2 RC2 a spin and all installed as expected off the dvd INTEL S3200SHV MB, Core2Duo, 4G of RAM In the past it had been suggested that for zfs tuning, something like vm.kmem_size_max="1073741824" vm.kmem_size="1073741824" vfs.zfs.prefetch_disable=1 However doing a simple test with bonnie and dd, there does not seem to be very much difference in

...0.04s 0% 3404k Worked for a while then that stopped working too (was over ssh). When trying a local login i only got load: 0.09 cmd: login 1611 [zfs] 0.00u 0.00s 0% 208k I found one post like this earlier (by Xin LI), but nobody seemed to have replied... in my current conf, I think my kmem/kmem_max is at 512Mb (not sure though, since I've edited my file yesterday for next reboot), with 2G of system RAM.. Normally I'd run kmem(max) 1G (with arcsize of 512M. currently it is at default), but since I just got back to 2G total mem after some hardware problems I've been runnig a...