Re: Swap, ZFS & ARC

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From: Eugene Grosbein <eugen_at_grosbein.net>
Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2023 14:41:44 UTC

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.