Re: Building a low-power FreeBSD media server
- From: RL <rl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2008 07:40:04 +1200
Rainer Duffner wrote:
I have no direct experience with FreeBSD and ZFS, but from various reports on the mailing-lists, it would seem that
a) it likes to run on AMD64
b) it likes a lot of RAM (4GB really seems to be the minimum, the
solarisinternals.com wiki suggests 1 GB per TB storage.
Can the above board be fitted with 4 or 8 GB RAM?
I've so far found ZFS to be stable on FreeBSD 7.0 on x86, once the very basic tuning recommendations have been followed. Stability was an issue with the earlier snapshots. At this time, I have only 1.5 TB of data on the box, 4TB total space, and 2GB of RAM. This will eventually increase to 2-3TB of data over the next few weeks. Free memory is presently sitting at 1.3GB, and uptime is now approximately 21 days, with regular access and a few scrubs.
What I found with the snapshot I tried (August from memory), was that you'd run out of memory after a few days of use, and have to reboot. Scrubs would also pick up a lot of CRC errors. These problems have been resolved, at least for me.
AMD64 is definitely preferable, but x86 is quite a workable solution for the home environment. I would recommend avoiding VIA, and going for one of the new low-power Intel CPUs, with a decent chipset.
RL
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