Re: Size of Swap with large phy. mem

I have 600M Mem and I have 1.7G of Swap. If I reduce the Swap space, the application would segmentation fault and create a core dump. Better have big a Swap sapce.

In article <9YXb6.9733$9v2.169114_at_quark.idirect.com>, tbrown_at_tucows.com says...
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>Hello.
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>If this has been asked before I'm sorry and a simple pointing in the
>right direction would be great!
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>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!)
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>Does anybody have any experience, suggestions?
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>Thanks
>Timothy Brown
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