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Operating Systems Solaris Coredumps and swap - was part of Solaris Mem Consumption Post 302223592 by Neo on Sunday 10th of August 2008 01:51:41 PM
Old 08-10-2008
Again, I do agree with reborg.

This was a thread about sizing for swap space, not about a side bar about numerous technical points that are interesting, but logically, a fallacy, because the basic premise that reborg said is correct.

You simply do not need swap for panic dumps, and certainly not for savecores (see I got the distinction right this time).

For example, I think reborg is working on a site upgrade with 16GB of RAM. If he said, hey Neo, I am going to configure ZERO swap, I would say, OK, you will get no push back from me.

But, knowing reborg over the years here (but not yet over a BBQ with lots of beer), he will more-than-likely configure around 4GB Linux swap for 16GM of RAM, but I could be wrong.
 

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XdbeSwapBuffers(3)						    X FUNCTIONS 						XdbeSwapBuffers(3)

NAME
XdbeSwapBuffers - swaps front and back DBE buffers. SYNOPSIS
#include <X11/extensions/Xdbe.h> Status XdbeSwapBuffers( Display *dpy, XdbeSwapInfo *swap_info, int num_windows) DESCRIPTION
This function swaps the front and back buffers for a list of windows. The argument num_windows specifies how many windows are to have their buffers swapped; it is the number of elements in the swap_info array. The argument swap_info specifies the information needed per window to do the swap. The XdbeSwapInfo structure has the following fields: Window swap_window XdbeSwapAction swap_action swap_window specifies the window for which to swap buffers. swap_action specifies the swap action to use for this swap_window. swap_action determines what will happen to the new back buffer of the swap_window it is paired with in the list in addition to making the old back buffer become visible. The defined actions are as follows: XdbeUndefined The contents of the new back buffer become undefined. This may be the most efficient action since it allows the implementation to discard the contents of the buffer if it needs to. XdbeBackground The unobscured region of the new back buffer will be tiled with the window background. The background action allows devices to use a fast clear capability during a swap. XdbeUntouched The unobscured region of the new back buffer will be unmodified by the swap. XdbeCopied The unobscured region of the new back buffer will be the contents of the old back buffer ERRORS
BadMatch A non-double-buffered window was specified or a window was specified twice. BadWindow An invalid window was specified. BadValue An invalid swap action was specified. SEE ALSO
DBE, XdbeAllocateBackBufferName(), XdbeBeginIdiom(), XdbeDeallocateBackBufferName(), XdbeEndIdiom(), XdbeFreeVisualInfo(), XdbeGetBack- BufferAttributes(), XdbeGetVisualInfo(), XdbeQueryExtension(). X Version 11 libXext 1.1.1 XdbeSwapBuffers(3)
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