Re: swap on solaris8 64 bit for oracle 8i

Dirk Kiehne <dirk_at_liberate.com> wrote in message news:<3B40CE2A.7929BB54_at_liberate.com>...
> Gulabchand Jaiswal wrote:
> >
> > Hello All,
> > Need yourinput....SNIP.........
> > that solaris8 has some "smart" swap and swapsize of 25 % the size of
> > RAM is fine !! We have a huge 24 GB RAM domain on an E10K with 64bit
> > solaris8. We run 32 bit
> > oracle 8.1.7.1.0. A 6 GB swap on this machine sounds very less.
> > IS this thing something new ?? or am i too old fashioned to need 1-
> > 1.5 times the RAM as my swap space ?
> >
> > oracle doc id 148673.1 still refers to "2 times the RAM" swap space
> > for oracle 9i for solaris!
> > it is not specific with soalris8 though.
> >
>
>
> I use Solaris 8 exclusively for our DBs and while it may have "smart"
> swap, in practice 8.1.7.1 still seems to consume alot of swap on my
> machines.
>
> I would stick with (1.5 - 2.0) * RAM. I'm finding at least 50% of my
> 2*RAM allocation is used up.
>
> -Dirk

Dirk..
Thank you very much for the response. I have some follow-up questions here . Appreciate youe help..

• whats ur hardware
  • total RAM
  • SGA sizes
    • how many DBs on songle machine
  • type of DBs( oltp/dss)

TIA.. G Received on Sat Jul 21 2001 - 16:24:07 CDT