SUMMARY: Do I really need 6GB of swap?

From: Monjar, Daniel <Monjar_at_orgtek.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 12:37:09 -0400

Thanks to:

C.Ruhnke [i769646_at_smrs013a.mdc.com]
Chris_Wilkison_at_ksainc.com
Jeffrey Hundstad [jeffrey.hundstad_at_mankato.msus.edu]
Jim Belonis [belonis_at_dirac.phys.washington.edu]
Kurt Carlson [snkac_at_java.sois.alaska.edu]
Mike Metelski [mmetelski_at_dttus.com]
Nathan Grass [NathanG_at_UTS.Itron.com]
Paul Grant [PGRANT_at_UK.oracle.com]
Ralph Rodriguez [rrodrigu_at_ssc.wisc.edu]
Tom Webster [webster_at_ssdpdc.lgb.cal.boeing.com]
alan_at_nabeth.cxo.dec.com

Consensus opinion was probably considering that the machines will run Baan
and Oracle... and since disk is so cheap why take the chance of problems
later on?

Original message was

> New systems I am putting in, 3 clustered 4100s to run Oracle and Baan,
will
> each have 2GB of RAM. Standard recommendations would say that I need 4GB
to
> 6GB of swap.
>
> Do I really?
>
> Each system will have 3 9GB drives, a mirror set for DEC Unix and
> applications and a single for the swap file. I have the space for the
huge
> swap file but is it a waste?
>

Daniel Monjar / mailto:dmonjar_at_orgtek.com
Manager, Systems
Organon Teknika
Received on Fri Aug 14 1998 - 16:39:22 NZST

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