Size of Swap with large phy. mem

From: Timothy brown <tbrown_at_tucows.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 15:51:33 GMT
Message-ID: <9YXb6.9733$9v2.169114_at_quark.idirect.com>


Hello.

If this has been asked before I'm sorry and a simple pointing in the right direction would be great!

We are getting a few new machines and will be putting a large db on them. I normally allocate
Swap space = 2 * Phys. Mem
Even for machines with 4G of physical memory (is this wrong?) Anyway the new machines are going to be E6500's with 30G of memory, now should I allocate a 60G for swap? (my god thats a lot!)

Does anybody have any experience, suggestions?

Thanks
Timothy Brown Received on Thu Jan 25 2001 - 16:51:33 CET

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