Playing with the ZFS swap
One of the toughest jobs in Oracle Solaris 11 is to calculate the optimal size of the swap area. Roughly, the operating system's virtual memory is made from a sum of RAM and swap, and its correct provisioning helps the application's performance. Unfortunately, when Oracle Solaris 11 is initially installed, the correct swap size can be underestimated or overestimated, given that any possible mistake can be corrected easily. This section will show you how to manage this issue.
Getting ready
This recipe requires a virtual machine (VMware or VirtualBox) with Oracle Solaris 11 installed and 4 GB RAM. Additionally, it's necessary to have access to eight 4 GB disks.
How to do it…
According to Oracle, there is an estimate during ...
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