Re: how much swap for 10g on a 4Gb RAM system?

From: DA Morgan <damorgan_at_psoug.org>
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 08:30:00 -0700
Message-ID: <1217345394.614333@bubbleator.drizzle.com>


obakesan wrote:
> Hi
>
> I'm just going through installing 10g and wondered about the swap
> requirements. The documents I'm reading suggest:
>
> " Swap space should be twice the amount of RAM for systems with 2GB of
> RAM or less and between one and two times the amount of RAM for systems with
> more than 2GB. "
>
> Since I've got 4 Gig, do I really need 4Gig of Swap? I'm not pressing this
> system as its just a "learning" platform.
>
> Has anyone got any experience with trying this with less:
>
> $ grep -i swaptotal /proc/meminfo
> SwapTotal: 2031608 kB
>
> Thanks
>
> See Ya
> (when bandwidth gets better ;-)
>
> Chris Eastwood
> Photographer, Programmer Motorcyclist and dingbat
> blog: http://cjeastwd.blogspot.com/
>
> please remove undies for reply

The installation docs can be found at http://tahiti.oracle.com. Read the instructions. It is that simple.

-- 
Daniel A. Morgan
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University of Washington
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Received on Tue Jul 29 2008 - 10:30:00 CDT

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