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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Samer,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>The document you referenced is old. Check the current
documentation: https://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-5-manual/Installation_Guide-en-US/s1-diskpartitioning-x86.html#s2-diskpartrecommend-x86<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>The formula give there would indicate 34GB of swap, which is
still quite a lot.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Greg<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span
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rhn-users-bounces@redhat.com [mailto:rhn-users-bounces@redhat.com] <b>On Behalf
Of </b>Samer Azmy<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, October 17, 2007 12:01 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Discussions about Red Hat Network (rhn.redhat.com)<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [rhn-users] RHEL5 Ram and Disk Partiton<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>I agree with you Frank, but if
we are talking about Standard and recommendations I will follow Redhat <br>
<br>
Regards<br>
Samer Azmy<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=gmailquote>On 10/17/07, <b>Lamon, Frank III </b><<a
href="mailto:Frank_LaMon@csx.com">Frank_LaMon@csx.com</a>> wrote:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Do not waste disk space with 64GB of swap! If you are using
64GB of swap you need to buy more RAM. Depending on the app the use of swap
could absolutely kill your performance or even app stability (think Oracle).
8-16GB of swap would be more than enough. <br>
<br>
<br>
-----Original Message-----<br>
From: <a href="mailto:rhn-users-bounces@redhat.com">rhn-users-bounces@redhat.com</a>
on behalf of Samer Azmy<br>
Sent: Wed 10/17/2007 2:41 PM<br>
To: Discussions about Red Hat Network ( <a href="http://rhn.redhat.com">rhn.redhat.com</a>)<br>
Subject: Re: [rhn-users] RHEL5 Ram and Disk Partiton<br>
<br>
Gentlemen,<br>
<br>
for the Size of the SWAP it should be double the RAM<br>
Quoted from Redhat site<br>
"A swap partition (at least 32MB) - swap partitions are used to support <br>
virtual memory. In other words, data is written to a swap partition when<br>
there is not enough RAM to store the data your system is processing. The<br>
size of your swap partition should be equal to twice your computer's RAM, or <br>
32MB, whichever amount is larger."<br>
<br>
Reference Link :<br>
<a
href="http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-9-Manual/install-guide/s1-diskpartitioning.html">http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-9-Manual/install-guide/s1-diskpartitioning.html
</a><br>
<br>
Kind Regards<br>
Samer Azmy<br>
<br>
On 10/17/07, Florez, Nestor <<a href="mailto:NFlorez@sdcwa.org">NFlorez@sdcwa.org</a>>
wrote:<br>
><br>
> Thanks :-)<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
> -----Original Message----- <br>
> From: <a href="mailto:rhn-users-bounces@redhat.com">rhn-users-bounces@redhat.com</a>
on behalf of Kyle Wilcox<br>
> Sent: Wed 10/17/2007 10:59 AM<br>
> To: Discussions about Red Hat Network (<a href="http://rhn.redhat.com">
rhn.redhat.com</a>)<br>
> Subject: Re: [rhn-users] RHEL5 Ram and Disk Partiton<br>
><br>
> A few of our RAID5 configurations, old and new, for your consideration:<br>
><br>
>
Size Used Free % <br>
> Mount point<br>
>
/dev/sda1
190M 89M 92M
50% /boot<br>
> /dev/mapper/vg0-lv0
4.9G 1.7G 3.0G 37%
/<br>
> /dev/mapper/vg0-lv1
2.9G 1.8G 1.1G
63% /home <br>
> /dev/mapper/vg0-lv5
2.9G 271M 2.5G
10% /opt<br>
> /dev/mapper/vg0-lv2
2.0G 301M 1.6G
16% /tmp<br>
> /dev/mapper/vg0-lv3
7.7G 4.6G 2.8G 63%
/usr<br>
> /dev/mapper/vg0-lv4
5.8G 2.4G 3.2G 43%
/var<br>
> /dev/mapper/vg0-lv6 522G
109G 387G 22% /work<br>
><br>
>
Size Used Free %<br>
> Mount point<br>
>
/dev/sda1
99M 17M
78M 18% /boot <br>
> /dev/mapper/vg0-lv0 5.7G 3.2G 2.3G 59% /<br>
> /dev/mapper/vg0-lv2
19G 1.4G
17G 8% /home<br>
> /dev/mapper/vg0-lv6 3.8G
72M 3.6G
2% /opt<br>
> /dev/mapper/vg0-lv3 9.5G
151M 8.9G
2% /tmp<br>
> /dev/mapper/vg0-lv4 19G
3.1G
15G 17% /usr<br>
> /dev/mapper/vg0-lv5 9.5G
3.2G 5.9G 36% /var<br>
> /dev/mapper/vg0-lv7 472G 223M
447G 1% /work <br>
><br>
> Size Used Free<br>
> % Mount point<br>
> /dev/sda6 1012M 406M
555M 43% /<br>
>
/dev/sda2 99M
36M 59M 38%
/boot <br>
>
/dev/sda5 29G 22G 6.3G 78%
/home<br>
>
/dev/sda7
1012M 33M 928M 4% /tmp<br>
>
/dev/sda9
8.2G 4.0G 3.8G
52% /usr<br>
>
/dev/sda10 494M
303M 166M 65% /var<br>
>
/dev/sda3 385G 283G 83G 78%
/work<br>
><br>
><br>
> Florez, Nestor wrote:<br>
> > Swap has to be (ram + 2) if greater than 2 Gig <br>
> ><br>
> > I am glad REHL5 can handle 32 gigs of ram<br>
> ><br>
> > I will be using Raid 5 with 5 300 Gig hard drives.<br>
> > My question is more of what is recommended<br>
> > for /, /var, /usr/local originally. <br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
> > Thanks,<br>
> ><br>
> > Nestor :-)<br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
> > -----Original Message-----<br>
> > From: <a href="mailto:rhn-users-bounces@redhat.com">rhn-users-bounces@redhat.com</a>
on behalf of Tiago Cruz<br>
> > Sent: Wed 10/17/2007 9:54 AM<br>
> > To: Discussions about Red Hat Network (<a href="http://rhn.redhat.com">rhn.redhat.com</a>)<br>
> > Subject: Re: [rhn-users] RHEL5 Ram and Disk Partiton <br>
> ><br>
> > 64 GB do Swap is spend of disk.<br>
> ><br>
> > 1 GB or 2 GB it's a good number for 99,9% of situations.<br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
> > On Wed, 2007-10-17 at 18:49 +0200, Samer Azmy wrote: <br>
> >> Yes , It does support 32G of RAM<br>
> >><br>
> >> the partitions size are up to u and ur applications just make the
SWAP<br>
> >> double the RAM<br>
> >> you may make a big var or opt <br>
> >><br>
> >><br>
> >> On 10/17/07, Florez, Nestor <<a href="mailto:NFlorez@sdcwa.org">NFlorez@sdcwa.org</a>>
wrote:<br>
> >> Can RHEL 5 handle
32 Gig of RAM?<br>
> >> <br>
> >><br>
> >> Recommendation on
partiton sizes for a 300 Gig Hard Drive?<br>
> >><br>
> >> Thanks,<br>
> >><br>
> >> Nestor :-)<br>
> >> <br>
> >><br>
> >><br>
> >>
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