One more technical follow-up.
Solaris uses swap files. These can be either regular files or
"slice" device files. I couldn't find any comments defining the
_exact_ range of possible files, the above are what the
documentation uses as example.
The swap spaces are defined by a tuple of <file, offset, size>,
which defines the exact position inside the file where the swap is
located.
Finally, the "swap -s" command, which I used to determine whether
the thing overcommits or not, reports *total* memory. The man page
explicitly refers to the main memory as a "swap space" for the
purpose of "swap -s". Thus, Solaris does, indeed, use a RAM+SWAP
model.
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