24 Apr
2018
24 Apr
'18
10:05 a.m.
On 24 Apr 2018, at 00:45, Arthur Krewat <krewat(a)kilonet.net> wrote:
Wow, I was going to refute this, as I don't ever remember seeing any Solaris box do
this. However, a Solaris 8 x86 vanilla install on VMware I did recently does indeed have
swap on the first cylinders (see below). A Solaris 7 x86 install does not exhibit this
behavior. Now I'm wondering if Solaris 9 does it. A Solaris 10 box I have access to
has swap after root, not before.
It makes sense that it was 8. We hardly used 9 so I don't know what it did, but I
suspect by 10 someone had had very strong words with whoever thought it was a good idea
after some large customer had had an only-technically-their-fault outage because of it and
been fierce at Sun. It was really stupidly dumb, I thought: solving a problem no-one had
any more by the wrong method (if paging *was* a problem a better solution is to add a
second slice on another physical disk as swap).