>The default install for OpenSolaris creates a single root pool, and creates a >swap and dump dataset within this pool. > >In a mutipool environment, would be make sense to add swap to a pool outside >or >the root pool, either as the sole swap dataset to be used or as extra swap ? > >Would this have any performance implications ?
My own experience is that the zvol swap devices are much slower than swap directly to disk. Perhaps because I had compression on in the rpool, but any form of data copying/compressing or caching for swap is a no-no: you use more memory and you need to evict more pages. Casper _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
