Re: swap space for Oracle 10

From: Martin Klier <usn_at_usn-it.de>
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 10:39:40 +0100
Message-ID: <47EB6B5C.9020708@usn-it.de>

Hi,

John Dunn schrieb:
> I am installing Oracle 10 on AIX 5.3 machine with 4GB RAM
> How much swap space should I configure?

I'd take 2GB of SWAP, because if it swaps that much, nothing will happen any more due to slow paging on disk. If the system touches the swap at all, consider more RAM, paging out oracle process or area memeory is deadly.

Regards
Martin Klier

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Received on Thu Mar 27 2008 - 04:39:40 CDT

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