I have a work server I setup with 8 2TB WD green HDD's using zfs raidz2. I had to change out 3 of the initial HDD as they had died. To replace the HDD's I partitioned them using GParted since I couldn't switch out HDD's by having the freenas box replace them. When using GParted I had to make their SWAP size a little smaller than the other HDD from the original pool.
My problem is that no SWAP space shows up even though I should have about 16GB of swap space. My system only has 8GB or ram (the max the MoBo can support) which is below the desired ~11GB suggested by the sources I have found (in hindsight). I have set some tuning variables:
vm.kmem_size 7500
vfs.zfs.arc_max 6000
Which keeps the system from freezing up but I would like to know how to get the SWAP working to hopefully get some faster transfers.
I know the SWAP is not setup because there is nothing showing with the TOP command and the GUI shows none used.
swapctl -A doesn't seem to enable the swap
My problem is that no SWAP space shows up even though I should have about 16GB of swap space. My system only has 8GB or ram (the max the MoBo can support) which is below the desired ~11GB suggested by the sources I have found (in hindsight). I have set some tuning variables:
vm.kmem_size 7500
vfs.zfs.arc_max 6000
Which keeps the system from freezing up but I would like to know how to get the SWAP working to hopefully get some faster transfers.
I know the SWAP is not setup because there is nothing showing with the TOP command and the GUI shows none used.
swapctl -A doesn't seem to enable the swap