Hi Richard, > The consensus best > practice is to have enough RAM that you don't need to > swap. If you need to > swap, your life will be sad no matter what your disk > config is.
>From my understanding Solaris does not overcommit memory allocation, so every >allocation must be backed by some form of memory (real RAM or swap). Some >programs tend to allocate more memory than they actually use, where unused >memory is mapped from swap without any I/O. Without swap this would be drawn >from real memory stealing memory from other applications or the page cache. A >big swap is therefore helpful even if there is no swapping activity. Is this implemented differently in Solaris 10/Nevada? Best regards -- Dagobert This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
