On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 10:28:45AM -0700, Richard Elling wrote: > Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > > I don't agree that if swap is used that performance will necessarily > > suck. If swap is available, Solaris will mount /tmp there, which > > helps temporary file performance. It is best to look at system paging > > (hard faults) while programs are running in order to determine if > > performance sucks due to inadequate RAM. In many runtime > > environments, only a small bit of the application address space is > > ever needed. > > swapfs is always there. But, IMHO, it is a misnomer because it just uses > the virtual memory system.
Why a misnomer? "swap" and "virtual memory" are used as identical terms in many places in Solaris. But since /tmp was mentioned, perhaps you're referring to tmpfs instead of swapfs? -- Darren Dunham [EMAIL PROTECTED] Senior Technical Consultant TAOS http://www.taos.com/ Got some Dr Pepper? San Francisco, CA bay area < This line left intentionally blank to confuse you. > _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
