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1. You shouldn't swap on ZFS, but really 2. You shouldn't swap on a filesystem, but really 3. You shouldn't swap at all. On a VM host you have a bit of leeway
by gorkish 3y ago
1. You shouldn't swap on ZFS, but really
2. You shouldn't swap on a filesystem, but really
3. You shouldn't swap at all.
On a VM host you have a bit of leeway for memory overcommit, but ideally if you have a box that frequently has to rely on swap, something is bad wrong. I don't think it's really fair to criticize a worst-choice configuration for being poorly supported here. There are simply too many opportunities for catch-22/deadlock scenarios in the interaction of the fs and allocator during OOM...