Swap space in Solaris or any UNIX host is a vital disk space that is used for the swapping process from physical memory (RAM) to disk. Virtual memory allows a process to run even if physical memory gets full by using swap space (which is located on your hard disk) to swap out memory pages that are not currently in use. This is a very important concept which every programmer and Linux user should know. It is even more important if you are working in IT support or as a system admin because if swap space is full then swapping will fail and no new process will be able to start.
