IIRC dump is special.
As for swap... really, you don't want to swap. If you're swapping you
have problems. Any swap space you have is to help you detect those
problems and correct them before apps start getting ENOMEM. There
*are* exceptions to this, such as Varnish. For Varnish and any
On 2013-01-23 09:41, casper@oracle.com wrote:
Yes and no: the system reserves a lot of additional memory (Solaris
doesn't over-commits swap) and swap is needed to support those
reservations. Also, some pages are dirtied early on and never touched
again; those pages should not be kept in
Jim Klimov wrote:
On 2013-01-23 09:41, casper@oracle.com wrote:
Yes and no: the system reserves a lot of additional memory (Solaris
doesn't over-commits swap) and swap is needed to support those
reservations. Also, some pages are dirtied early on and never touched
again; those pages should
From: Gary Mills [mailto:gary_mi...@fastmail.fm]
In solaris, I've never seen it swap out idle processes; I've only
seen it use swap for the bad bad bad situation. I assume that's all
it can do with swap.
You would be wrong. Solaris uses swap space for paging. Paging out
unused
On 01/22/2013 10:50 PM, Gary Mills wrote:
On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 11:54:53PM +, Edward Ned Harvey
(opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris) wrote:
Paging out unused portions of an executing process from real memory to
the swap device is certainly beneficial. Swapping out complete
processes
On 01/22/2013 10:50 PM, Gary Mills wrote:
On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 11:54:53PM +, Edward Ned Harvey
(opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolari
s) wrote:
Paging out unused portions of an executing process from real memory to
the swap device is certainly beneficial. Swapping out complete
On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 5:29 AM, Darren J Moffat darr...@opensolaris.orgwrote:
Preallocated ZVOLs - for swap/dump.
Darren, good to hear about the cool stuff in S11.
Just to clarify, is this preallocated ZVOL different than the preallocated
dump which has been there for quite some time (and is
