[geeks] Swap Memory..

[Bill Bradford]

On Sun, Oct 20, 2002 at 05:08:39AM +0000, Chris David wrote:
> I have planned to install Soalris 8 Production box with  8 gb internal 
> drives and 2048mb ram. Is that i need to allocate 4 gb (2* ram) of swap 
> space ?? Because i need my /usr /opt /var directory needs atleast 4, 1 gb 
> each.
> It sun recommends to have swap less than my memory??

What we do on production servers is 2G of swap, or 2X physical RAM (but
no MORE than 2G).

The "swap = 2x physical RAM" is a holdover from the "old days" when disk
was cheaper than memory.

Bill

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bill bradford
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austin, texas