On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 12:16:11PM -0500, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > On Sat, 19 Apr 2008, Richard Elling wrote: > > > > Don't worry about swapping on CF. In most cases, you won't be > > using the swap device for normal operations. You can use the > > swap -l command to observe the swap device usage. No usage > > means that you can probably do away with it. If you actually > > use swap, performance will suck, so buy more RAM. > > I don't agree that if swap is used that performance will necessarily > suck. If swap is available, Solaris will mount /tmp there, which > helps temporary file performance.
I think these paragraphs are referring to two different concepts with "swap". Swapfiles or backing store in the first, and virtual memory space in the second. -- Darren Dunham [EMAIL PROTECTED] Senior Technical Consultant TAOS http://www.taos.com/ Got some Dr Pepper? San Francisco, CA bay area < This line left intentionally blank to confuse you. > _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
