Indeed. I've had zLinux boxes using VDISKs for swap that get it to the terrible state where the VDISK can sustain swapping at a high enough rate that Oracle wi

Indeed. I've had zLinux boxes using VDISKs for swap that get it to the terrible state where the VDISK can sustain swapping at a high enough rate that Oracle will be able to accept and maintain connections, but not do any work. The application attached to the database is unable to see this as a failure and flop over to the other node in the RAC.