On Fri, 18 Apr 2008, Pascal Vandeputte wrote:
> - does Solaris require a swap space on disk
No, Solaris does not require a swap space. However you do not have a
lot of memory so when there is not enough virtual memory available,
programs will fail to allocate memory and quit running. There is an
advantage to having a swap area since then Solaris can put rarely used
pages in swap to improve overall performance. The memory can then be
used for useful caching (e.g. ZFS ARC), or for your applications.
In addition to using a dedicated partition, you can use a file on UFS
for swap ('man swap') and ZFS itself is able to support a swap volume.
I don't think that you can put a normal swap file on ZFS so you would
want to use ZFS's built-in support for that.
Bob
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Bob Friesenhahn
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GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/
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