Re: Swap, ZFS & ARC
- In reply to: jbo_a_insane.engineer: "Re: Swap, ZFS & ARC"
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Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2023 23:40:07 UTC
02.02.2023 22:45, jbo@insane.engineer wrote: >> 02.02.2023 21:28, jbo@insane.engineer wrote: >> >>> Hello folks, >>> >>> Based on a discussion on the forums not so long ago I tried to figure out how swap usage on a ZFS system plays together with ARC. However, I could find very little to no information on this which leads me to believe that there is some "core concept" I might be oblivious to. >>> >>> The main question is basically this: Your system starts to swap out data from RAM to your swap partition. >>> This swap data on disk ultimately resides somewhere in a ZFS pool. >> >> >> I prefer not doing this. That is, all my systems have swap partition outside of ZFS pool. > > This isn't really achievable on your average "single disk" desktop systems, right? For desktop systems you must use GPT/MBR to boot off single disk and with partitioning there is no problem in creating dedicated slice for swap.