Swap space with 12G memory

Tobias Speckbacher TSpeckbacher at quova.com
Thu Mar 17 00:26:28 UTC 2005


I'd probably add no more than 2GB of swap.
If your app is that memory bound you don't want to get into situation
where it actually needs the swap.

-T

> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2005 4:26 PM
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> Subject: RE: Swap space with 12G memory
> 
> 
> > > What is the swap space recommended for
> > > RH Enterprise 3 for 12G of memory. Currently we are using 4G.
> > >
> > > The app is an LSAP system > 6G of data,
> > >
> > > JYard
> > > UCLA
> 
> > The Rule of Thumb is normaly 1.5 - 2 times the physical amount of
ram.
> that its was they tall you
> > So in your case 18 - 24g of swap.
> Thats its very stupid.
> why waste so much disk in something not worthy?
> I always says if you have a lot of RAM because you need it (Big DB)
and
> you start to use to much swap (>512) better buy more RAM.
> > I would check to see if your app requires that much ram.
> as far as i know, there is not such thing like "much ram".
> 
> saludos.
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