Hi Eric, Eric Lowe wrote: >> okay, we've just seen some strange problems without swap. i haven't had >> time to look into why, so we are just going to use swap anyway for now. > > Please let us know you perceive to be "strange issues" are.
I'll look into filing a bug when i get a chance. Basically we've seen a system lock up here without it. My understanding is that this was not due to an out of memory condition, but I need to investigate further. We also saw problems when we tried to stripe swap across our disks, but that's a different issue. > Solaris > virtual memory is designed to work just fine without swap space. It's > not pretty when you get really close to being out of memory, but that's > true whether you have swap space configured or not. When there isn't > enough food to go around, there's a famine. I understand that. We're trying to eliminate the disks from a potential point of failure (well, the dimms are still a potential failure point too....). peter _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
