> On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 2:27 PM, Michael Lee > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Why do you want to mirror swap? I would take swap > off of mdb and use the two partitions as swap. > > What happens when you have important process pages > temporarily swapped > out to disk and that disk fails? (Two swap > partitions, creates a > larger VM table, vs. higher availability.)
Quite. However, on the larger VM side, non-mirrored swap would also tend to perform better (esp. if both halves of the mirror have to be on the same controller due to lack of enough controllers/disks to do otherwise). Not swapping at all (i.e. buy more memory!) would be better still, of course. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
