On Wed, Apr 03, 2019 at 11:00:59PM +0200, Stephan Althaus wrote:
> 
> What i see is permanent activity on swap (mate-system-monitor)
> not that much memory currently ~230MG
> but always some change in the amount, percent-wise.
> 
> So i need nice optane memory for my swap now ;-)
> 
> There are more than 3GB free in ram, so the swap is not needed.
> maybe some temporary file system on swap is used:
> 
> $mount|sort|grep swap
> /etc/svc/volatile on swap read/write/setuid/devices/xattr/dev=8fc0001 on
> Wed Apr  3 22:32:56 2019
> /tmp on swap read/write/setuid/devices/xattr/dev=8fc0002 on Wed Apr  3
> 22:33:03 2019
> /var/run on swap read/write/setuid/devices/xattr/dev=8fc0003 on Wed Apr 
> 3 22:33:03 2019

The usual solution on Solaris/illumos is to avoid /tmp and create
temporary files in /var/tmp instead.  Unlike on Linux, /tmp on illumos
is memory-based and quite small.  /var/tmp is disk-based and much
larger.  There's probably a configuration setting that controls where
temporary files are kept.


-- 
-Gary Mills-            -refurb-                -Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada-

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