Mike Gerdts wrote: >> Not at all, and I don't see how you could get that assumption from what I >> said. I said "dynamically when it is needed". > > I think I came off wrong in my initial message. I've seen times when > vmstat reports only megabytes of free swap while gigabytes of RAM were > available. That is, reservations far outstripped actual usage.
Ah that makes it more clear. > Do you have mechanisms in mind to be able to detect such circumstances > and grow swap to a point that the system can handle more load without > spiraling to a long slow death? I don't as yet because I haven't had time to think about this. Maybe once I've finished with the ZFS Crypto project and I spend some time looking at encrypted VM (other than by swapping on an encrypted ZVOL). At the moment while it annoys me it isn't on my todo list to try and implement a fix. -- Darren J Moffat _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
