[discuss] Why does illumos need so much of swap space?

[nqxjlwvb via illumos-discuss]

I assigned 8GB of RAM to the OpenIndiana VM but pkg update is still unhappy. 
The default swap volume size is 2GB. I have tried to bump the swap space many 
times until I reached the reasonable value that pkg update agreed to work, 
which is 16GB, or twice the amount of physical RAM I assigned to this VM.
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