* Rainer Heilke <rheilke at dragonhearth.com> [2007-10-04 03:42]: > This may be more of a side-note to Mike, but I think we need to > consider these implications when we (in the sysadmin community) work > on the best practices documentation. At least for now, it seems that > making the dump device something other than swap is very important. > Maybe less so when this gets resolved, but if it is a low priority...
Best practice for a servicable system is to use a dedicated dump device, and has been since Solaris 8. In terms of adjusting such practice, I would expect changes to the virtual memory subsystem would in turn affect dump behaviour in the future (if not changes in the hardware itself). - Stephen -- sch at sun.com http://blogs.sun.com/sch/
