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overridden. | overridden. | ||||
512 byte blocks are used by default. | 512 byte blocks are used by default. | ||||
.El | .El | ||||
.Sh NOTE | |||||
ZVOL devices and ZFS swap files are discouraged for using as swap space. | |||||
ZFS needs to allocate memory to write to swap space | |||||
kib: It does not matter how much memory is required for write. What matter is that each write… | |||||
while the system is under low memory pressure trying to make some | |||||
memory available. | |||||
In order words, ZFS needs memory to make memory available. | |||||
Not Done Inline Actionskilling what? I would insert "(random?) processes" here. bcr: killing what? I would insert "(random?) processes" here.
Contractions are discouraged in man… | |||||
OOM killer may start killing processes as ZFS does not write to swap | |||||
pauamma_gundo.comUnsubmitted Not Done Inline Actionss/OOM/The OOM/ pauamma_gundo.com: s/OOM/The OOM/ | |||||
space fast enough or to allocate memory for ZFS to write to swap | |||||
pauamma_gundo.comUnsubmitted Not Done Inline ActionsMissing word here? "or fails to allocate" maybe? pauamma_gundo.com: Missing word here? "or fails to allocate" maybe? | |||||
although large swap space is still available. | |||||
.El | |||||
.Sh FILES | .Sh FILES | ||||
.Bl -tag -width ".Pa /dev/{ada,da}?s?b" -compact | .Bl -tag -width ".Pa /dev/{ada,da}?s?b" -compact | ||||
.It Pa /dev/{ada,da}?s?b | .It Pa /dev/{ada,da}?s?b | ||||
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It does not matter how much memory is required for write. What matter is that each write requires allocation of memory.