64GB swap partition?

[Antonello Piemonte]

On Friday 02 June 2006 12:19, Lunt, Nick wrote:

> That depends what your running on it. Some applications require XGB of
> swap, so you'd add them together and then add a bit more. 32Gb of swap
> seems excessive to me, but like I said it depends what your running on the
> box. Weve got some 4 cpu boxes with 16Gb RAM running around 10-20 oracle
> instances each and they've only got 4 GB of swap on them, and they run
> fine.

it will run 8 instances of sybase ASE ...
any further advice or comment is very much appreciated.
thanks
antonello