Bart Smaalders wrote: > Ian Collins wrote: >> Rick Mann wrote: >>> Ian Collins wrote: >>> >>> >>>> Bung in (add a USB one if you don't have space) a small boot drive and >>>> use all the others for for ZFS. >>>> >>> Not a bad idea; I'll have to see where I can put one. >>> >>> But, I thought I read somewhere that one can't use ZFS for swap. Or >>> maybe I read this: >>> >>> >> I wouldn't bother, just spec the machine with enough RAM so swap's only >> real use is as a dump device. You can always use a swap file if you >> have to. >> >> Ian > > If you compile stuff (like opensolaris), you'll want swap space. > Esp. if you use dmake; 30 parallel C++ compilations can use up a > lot of RAM. > I should have said "I wouldn't bother with swap on ZFS".
If your compiles use swap, you are either doing too many jobs, or you don't have enough RAM! Saying that, I did have one C++ file that used swap on my laptop with 1G of RAM and that was on a serial make. Ian _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
