On Sat, 19 Apr 2008, michael schuster wrote: > that's true most of the time ... unless free memory gets *really* low, then > Solaris *does* start to swap (ie page out pages by process). IIRC, the > threshold for swapping is minfree (measured in pages), and the value that > needs to fall below this threshold is freemem.
Most people here are likely too young to know what "swapping" really is. Swapping is not the same as the paging that Solaris does. With swapping the kernel knows that this address region belongs to this process and we are short of RAM so block copy the process to the swap area, and only remember that it exists via the process table. Bob ====================================== Bob Friesenhahn [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/ _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
