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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
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