Greetings, I'm running Solaris 10 release on my Ultra 10 and I've noticed it tends to swap a lot, even though I have plenty of RAM

Below is the memory usage from running 'top', I don't really understand why it's resorting to using swap when there is plenty of free memory. I have slow hard disks on this system and would like to restrict swapping to a minimum.

Memory: 512M real, 222M free, 127M swap in use, 1186M swap free

To contrast, if I boot this machine into NetBSD-2.0 and run similar sets of tasks, NetBSD never uses swap, there is plenty of RAM and NetBSD handles it very efficiently.

My question is, is there a way to tune Solaris to prevent it from swapping all the time?
_______________________________________________
Solaris-Users mailing list
[email protected]
http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/solaris-users

Reply via email to