[patrickg_zill]

One thing I noticed about Solaris - it handles low-memory situations (like 15.5G out of 16GB being used) and swapping, very very well.

If Linux has enough RAM, it will outperform Solaris, but, it is quicker to get bogged down if there is swapping.

(These observations are from about Centos 5.x , so, perhaps they are no longer valid, however.)

[GFK_of_xmaspast]

I find myself having to run with ulimit -v #### in a term on linux if I think I might start eating memory because I'm sick of having to craw under my desk to power cycle.

[ithkuil]

why not turn off swap entirely?