>On Thu, 10 Jun 2010, casper....@sun.com wrote: >> >> Swap is perhaps the wrong name; it is really "virtual memory"; virtual >> memory consists of real memory and swap on disk. In Solaris, a page >> either exists on the physical swap device or in memory. Of course, not >> all memory is available as the kernel and other caches use a large part >> of the memory. > >Don't forget that virtual memory pages may also come from memory >mapped files from the filesystem. However, it seems that zfs is >effectively diminishing this.
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