Jean-Sbastien Pdron wrote this message on Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 15:50 +0200:
> On 29.08.2013 19:51, Alexander wrote:
> > I have swapinfo on zfs partition
>
> I always heard that swap on ZFS is asking for trouble, because ZFS loves
> to use memory. So when the system is using swap space, ZFS has more work
> and therefore wants more RAM, whici is unavailable.
>
> Furthermore, I'm not sure if kernel core dumping on swap on ZFS is
> supported at all. The following discussion on the forum suggests it's
> not possible:
> http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=37958
>
> Can you plug another driver and setup swap on it? A USB drive/key should
> be fine.
You don't need to use a swap device to dump to it... You can just set
up the USB drive as the dump device only...
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