On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 3:20 PM, Jacob Ritorto <jacob.rito...@gmail.com> wrote:
> If the swap partition ends up being on ZFS, it'll garner the additional > benefit of being able to be periodically scrubbed to check for degradation > of the SSD (these only accommodate a finite number of write cycles, but > most modern ones have write leveling to distribute the exercise across the > whole device). > Yes, and since a swap device is usually never even close to full, the write leveling should work quite well. Even though I size RAM to avoid swapping, I usually configure some swap space. In the event of a memory leak or unexpectedly large process it's usually better to have a server (or desktop) that becomes sluggish rather than one that crashes. Admittedly, with something like a busy web server the two can easily end up being almost the same, as it falls ever farther behind in processing requests. I don't configure 2x the RAM size anymore, though. ;) -- D. Brodbeck System Administrator, Linguistics University of Washington GPG key fingerprint: 0DB7 4B50 8910 DBC5 B510 79C4 3970 2BC3 2078 D875 _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
