I know that according to the documentation Solaris is supposed to be fully operational in the absences of swap devices. However, I've experienced cases which I have not been able to trace the root cause of yet where the disk access has increased drastically and caused the system to hang but it may be more of a performance issue.
One concern is that I have applications that create a lot of /tmp files and they may end up consuming all RAM. I assume /tmp files cannot be swapped out to give room for new processes without a swap device so the malloc failures in the applications will come much sooner. I wonder if cached files or process pages have the highest priority of not being swapped out in the Solaris swap policy? /Karl D -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
