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Operating Systems Solaris Solaris 10 swap device and filesystem Post 302977618 by MadeInGermany on Wednesday 20th of July 2016 02:13:38 PM
Old 07-20-2016
Q1) Problem: the swap would trash the filesystem!

BTW my personal thumb formula is: swap-GB = 4 x SQRT(RAM-GB)

Q2) No, can be any size.

Q3) The larger the used swap, the lower is the paging to/from the swap. The unused swap does not matter for performance (but is wasted disk space).
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