From 175594a7c7fd5060beb3a04c77afed39fa51ae50 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: George Melikov Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2019 18:09:49 +0300 Subject: [PATCH] add comment about perf on <2GB RAM. --- Debian-Buster-Root-on-ZFS.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Debian-Buster-Root-on-ZFS.md b/Debian-Buster-Root-on-ZFS.md index b924e87..38e067c 100644 --- a/Debian-Buster-Root-on-ZFS.md +++ b/Debian-Buster-Root-on-ZFS.md @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ * [A 64-bit kernel is *strongly* encouraged.](https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/wiki/FAQ#32-bit-vs-64-bit-systems) * Installing on a drive which presents 4KiB logical sectors (a “4Kn” drive) only works with UEFI booting. This not unique to ZFS. [GRUB does not and will not work on 4Kn with legacy (BIOS) booting.](http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?46700) -Computers that have less than 2 GiB of memory run ZFS slowly. 4 GiB of memory is recommended for normal performance in basic workloads. If you wish to use deduplication, you will need [massive amounts of RAM](http://wiki.freebsd.org/ZFSTuningGuide#Deduplication). Enabling deduplication is a permanent change that cannot be easily reverted. +Computers that have less than 2 GiB of memory may run ZFS slowly due to small available space for ZFS cache. 4 GiB of memory is recommended for normal performance in basic workloads. If you wish to use deduplication, you will need [massive amounts of RAM](http://wiki.freebsd.org/ZFSTuningGuide#Deduplication). Enabling deduplication is a permanent change that cannot be easily reverted. ## Support