Re: Oracle 8.x/Solaris Swap Space Configuration

On Mon, 1 Jun 1998 11:47:09 -0400, Scott Cairns <sdcairns_at_mindspring.com> wrote:
>My firm just took delivery on two Sun 4000 servers, one with 512mb RAM and
>one with 1gb RAM. I'm playing sys admin for the time being (I have 10 years
>of Sun experience but largely as a developer).
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>We are going to be running Oracle 8 on both of these boxes.
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>My question is what is the recommendation for swap space configuration under
>Solaris 2.6? The old rule of thumb used to be 2x your RAM size but I've
>heard from someone who's opinion I trust that this is no longer the case
>under Solaris and that a 20% factor is more reasonable.
>
>Opinions?

I agree, although Oracle still says 2-4X in the install manual. Use what you want, if Oracle runs out during relinking make it larger.

I'm using 1% of 2G swap for .5G mem in normal running if that helps. That's with half real mem for SGA. I have seen nearly all swap get used up under unusual situations.

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>Thanks in advance...
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