[geeks] number of memory slots in an Ultra 2?

[Bill Bradford]

On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 08:02:56PM -0500, Michael S. Schiller wrote:
> Well, the old rule of thumb for any Unix system used to be that the swap
> partition should be at least 2x the size of physical memory. This was back
> when a machine with 16mb was considered a good machine, so it might be
> different now. Generally when I setup Solaris 8 I make the swap partition
> 256mb and everything seems to work ok. My U5 has 512mb of memory, but only
> 128mb of swap, and it runs out all the time :(
> -Mike

On machines with less than a gig of RAM, I do swap = 2xRAM.  On machines with
a gig of RAM or more, I make swap 2gig.  I think our standard at work is 
2gig, regardless of RAM.

Bill

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Bill Bradford
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