How to Increase swap size on Solaris (using ZFS) solaris 11

Firstly, check where your swap file is (it will be a ZFS volume created during the Solaris installation):

bash-3.00# swap -l
swapfile             dev  swaplo blocks   free
/dev/zvol/dsk/rpool/swap 256,1      16 4194288 4194288

Then you will need to unmount it:

bash-3.00# swap -d /dev/zvol/dsk/rpool/swap

You should validate it is unmounted:

bash-3.00# swap -l
No swap devices configured

Then you can resize the ZFS volume (just give it the pool name and the volume name):

bash-3.00# zfs set volsize=16G rpool/swap

And then add it back into your swap space:

bash-3.00# swap -a /dev/zvol/dsk/rpool/swap

And now we see the swap space is back online and larger than before:

bash-3.00# swap -l
swapfile             dev  swaplo blocks   free
/dev/zvol/dsk/rpool/swap 256,1      16 33554416 33554416

Enjoy !!

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