[SunHELP] System Bottleneck

[Greg]

On 09/21/01 08:01 AM, Fletcher, Joe wrote:

> I'd start by increasing the size of the swap area. Having swap < physical is
> generally a bad idea unless you are running in lazy mode. 


Why is it bad?  Assuming you aren't running Solaris 1 then there aren't 
any resources wasted or performance problems associated with having less 
swap than physical memory.  Solaris 2 doesn't require that there be 
_any_ swap let alone any restrictions on the size when it's larger than 
zero.  If you do have swap (and really use it) then larger swap areas 
are worse for performance than having multiple smaller swap areas spread 
across multiple disk spindles.

-greg